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WALTHEW v. DAVIS

111 S.E.2d 784 (1960)

201 Va. 557

John W. WALTHEW v. B. W. DAVIS, Sheriff, Administrator of Estate of Helen Elizabeth Taylor, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Nelson Sutton, West Point (Sutton & Causey, West Point, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

C. O'Conor Goolrick, Fredericksburg (C. Berkley Lilly, Beckley, W. Va., Goolrick, Ashby & Whitticar, Fredericksburg, on brief), for defendant in error.

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

EGGLESTON, Chief Justice.

Helen Elizabeth Taylor, while riding as a guest in an airplane operated by John W. Walthew, was killed when the airplane in attempting to take off at the Shannon Airport near Fredericksburg crashed into a building adjacent to the runway. In an action for wrongful death, B. W. Davis, sheriff, administrator of the estate of the decedent, recovered a verdict and judgment of $10,000 against Walthew, hereinafter designated as the defendant, who...

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