VA. FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO. v. SIMPKINS

Record No. 751439.

231 S.E.2d 226 (1977)

VIRGINIA FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. Nell S. SIMPKINS, Executrix, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Russell, Richmond, for plaintiff in error.

A. Fleet Dillard, Tappahannock (Dillard-Hamilton Associates, Tappahannock, on brief), for defendant in error.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

Curnell Lee Johnson, while operating his automobile in a southerly direction on State Route 721, struck and killed Eugene W. Simpkins, who was walking in the same direction to remove from the public highway a calf that had escaped from his property. In a wrongful death action instituted by the executrix against Johnson, an uninsured motorist, a copy of the motion for judgment was served on Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, which, pursuant...

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