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PETCOSKY v. BOWMAN

89 S.E.2d 4 (1955)

197 Va. 240

Paul PETCOSKY v. Donald C. BOWMAN and Samuel Roy Dodson. Samuel Roy DODSON v. Donald C. BOWMAN and Paul Petcosky.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bowles, Anderson & Boyd, Richmond, Seymour J. Spelman, Arlington, for plaintiff in error Petcosky.

Moncure & Cabell, Richmond, for plaintiff in error Dodson.

J. Segar Gravatt, W. P. Bagwell, Jr., Blackstone, Shewmake, Gary, Goddin & Blackwell, Richmond, Goolrick, Ashby & Whitticar, Fredericksburg, Bowles, Anderson & Boyd, Richmond, Seymour J. Spelman, Arlington, for defendants in error.

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

EGGLESTON, Justice.

This litigation arises out of two collisions involving five motor vehicles which occurred on U. S. Highway No. 1, just south of Stafford Courthouse, about 9:00 o'clock p. m. on Friday, August 31, 1951. For a distance of one-fourth of a mile north and about one-half mile south of the scene the highway had been recently resurfaced for a width of 40 feet. The usual white lines indicating the lanes of traffic...

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