SHIFLET v. ELLER

Record No. 812254.

319 S.E.2d 750 (1984)

Harvey H. SHIFLET, III, et al. v. Murray L. ELLER, Jr.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Lustig, Virginia Beach (Guy, Cromwell, Betz & Lustig, P.C., Virginia Beach, on brief), for appellants.

John S. Norris, Jr., Norfolk (Williams, Worrell, Kelly & Greer, P.C., Norfolk, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

This is the appeal of two negligence cases. In each case a joint tort-feasor had been released by the plaintiffs. Subsequently, the trial court refused to apply the 1979 covenant-not-to-sue statute and ruled that the other joint wrongdoer also had been released. The sole question is whether the statute affects substantive rights of joint tort-feasors or merely impacts procedural aspects of their remedy...

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