Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Shaw has ordered that Hole in the Wall Waterfront Grill participate in a settlement conference on Dec. 5 with the Mathews County Board of Supervisors and Mathews County Administrator Ramona Wilson regarding the emergency injunction the restaurant filed against the county in July.
The injunction was in response to the county’s unannounced eviction of the restaurant from county-owned property on Gwynn’s Island on July 10, and it seeks $80,000 for losses incurred during the closure of the restaurant.
According to the order, signed by Shaw on Nov. 3 and filed in Mathews Circuit Court, Timothy J. Hauler, identified as a retired judge on the 12th judicial circuit and a qualified judicial settlement conference judge, has been designated to conduct the conference. It will be held in the courts building in Colonial Heights.
The order states that each of the parties has to provide a representative, either in person or by telephone, “who shall have final authority t...