BASHAM v. TERRY


102 S.E.2d 285 (1958)

199 Va. 817

Joseph C. BASHAM v. Lorena M. TERRY, Administratrix, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. S. Kime, W. H. Jolly, Salem, for plaintiff in error.

Jack B. Coulter, Roanoke (E. Griffith Dodson, Jr., Dodson, Pence & Coulter, Roanoke, on brief), for defendant in error.

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


MILLER, Justice.

On May 13, 1956, an automobile operated by Joseph C. Basham in which his father-in-law, John M. Terry, was a guest passenger, collided in the city or Roanoke, Virginia, with a parked car. Injuries were inflicted upon Terry from which he died fifteen hours later. Lorena Terry, a daughter of decedent, qualified as administratrix of his estate, and in an action brought against Basham under §§ 8-633 and 8-634, Code 1950, she recovered a verdict...

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