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LANE v. HAMPTON

87 S.E.2d 803 (1955)

197 Va. 46

Ronald Eugene LANE v. Alpheus P. HAMPTON, Administrator of the Estate of Alpheus P. Hampton, Jr., Deceased.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 13, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams, Cocke, Worrell & Kelly, Jack E. Greer, Norfolk, for plaintiff in error.

Rixey & Rixey, Spencer G. Gill, Jr., Norfolk, for defendant in error.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH, and WHITTLE, JJ.

EGGLESTON, Justice.

In an action for wrongful death Alpheus P. Hampton, administrator of the estate of Alpheus P. Hampton, Jr., deceased, has recovered a verdict and judgment of $5,000 against Ronald Eugene Lane. On this writ of error the defendant, Lane, attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment, claiming that it fails to show (1) that he, the defendant, was guilty of any negligence which proximately caused his car to strike the...

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