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APPALACHIAN POWER CO. v. SANDERS

Record Nos. 830435, 830436.

349 S.E.2d 101 (1986)

APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY v. Earline Virginia SANDERS. PATRICK COUNTY-STUART CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC. v. Earline Virginia SANDERS, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Rakes (Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellant in No. 830435.

John W. Carter (Lawrence G. Wilson, Jr., Robert H. Whitt, Jr., Danville, on brief), for appellee in No. 830435.

James L. Hutton (Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton, Blacksburg, on briefs), for appellant in No. 830436.

Richard C. Rakes, Roanoke, John W. Carter (Lawrence G. Wilson, Jr., Robert H. Whitt, Jr., Danville, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellees in No. 830436.

Present: All the Justices.

POFF, Justice.

These appeals, consolidated for review, arise from a judgment confirming the verdict of a jury which awarded a plaintiff damages against a lessor and its lessee for injuries sustained in a fall on the leased premises. Neither appellant raises a question concerning the quantum of damages or contributory negligence. The lessor challenges an instruction defining the standard of care a lessor owes to a lessee's invitee, and both defendants question the...

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