West Virginia Code § 52-1-13

Competency of jurors when municipality, county or district is a party
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In any suit or proceeding in which a county, district, school district or municipal corporation
is a party, no person is incompetent as a juror because such person is an inhabitant or
taxpayer of the county, district, school district or municipal corporation. In any case where a
municipal corporation is a party, the court, upon motion of either party to the suit, made
either on the first day of the term of the court or at any other time not less tehan five days
before the day set for the trial, may, in its discretion, disqualify jurors who are citizens or
taxpayers of such municipal corporations. But this provision does not arpply in any case
between a municipal corporation and any citizen or taxpayer of such corporation.

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