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Judge seeks advice on case of desecrated graves
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Logan County judge wants advice from the West Virginia Supreme Court on a lawsuit alleging damage to a cemetery in a historically black coal camp community.
Circuit Judge Roger Perry is seeking guidance from the high court on whether there are grounds for a lawsuit, what the plaintiffs have to prove and what damages can be awarded.
Relatives of people buried in Crystal Block Cemetery near Sarah Ann say a natural gas pipeline project for the EQT company has damaged graves there.
This is new legal territory in West Virginia, since the state's highest court has never ruled on such a case before.
A spokesman for Pittsburgh-based EQT says there's no evidence any of the graves have been disturbed.
