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LILLEY v. SIMMONS

108 S.E.2d 245 (1959)

200 Va. 791

John Jethro LILLEY, Jr. v. Mary Helen SIMMONS, an Infant, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

May 4, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Earle White, Petersburg (White, Hamilton, Wyche & Shell, Petersburg, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

A. S. Harrison, Jr., Lawrenceville (Robert W. Arnold, Jr., Waverly, on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE, SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.

SPRATLEY, Justice.

Mary Helen Simmons, an infant, instituted this action by her next friend against John Jethro Lilley, Jr., to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her when a motorcycle on which she was riding as a passenger collided with a truck operated by Lilley. A jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $125,000, on which the judgment appealed from was entered.

The defendant assigns three grounds for reversal of the judgment...

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