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DUDLEY v. ESTATE LIFE INS. CO. OF AMERICA

Record No. 771792.

257 S.E.2d 871 (1979)

Philip Thomas DUDLEY et al. v. ESTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

August 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tommy Joe Williams, Roanoke (James H. Fulghum, King, Fulghum, Renick & Bounds, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellants.

David B. Hart, Roanoke (Smeltzer & Hart, P. C., Roanoke, on brief), for appellee.

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

COMPTON, Justice.

In this civil appeal, we examine a principal's liability to third persons for fraudulent conduct of an agent.

Appellants Philip Thomas Dudley and Richard W. Walters filed separate actions at law in the court below seeking recovery in damages from appellee Estate Life Insurance Company of America and from George W. Blood. In identical amended motions for judgment, the respective plaintiffs alleged they were damaged by certain fraudulent, malicious...

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