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BEASLEY v. BARNES

113 S.E.2d 62 (1960)

201 Va. 593

William Gene BEASLEY, an Infant, et al. v. Samuel BARNES et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 7, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Gibson, South Norfolk, Major M. Hillard, Jr., Portsmouth, for plaintiff in error.

E. L. Ryan, Jr., Norfolk, Eugene Forrest Gordman (I. W. Jacobs, White, Ryan & Reynolds, Norfolk, on brief), for defendants in error.

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

SNEAD, Justice.

The sole question involved in this appeal is whether plaintiff, William Gene Beasley, an infant who was 19 years of age, was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law when the motorcycle he owned and operated collided with a truck owned by defendant Bottoms Fiske Truck Lines, Incorporated, and operated by defendant Samuel Barnes, its employee, in South Norfolk on January 22, 1957.

A trial was had on May 6 and 7, 1958, and the jury...

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