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CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TEL. v. SISSON & RYAN

Record No. 840962.

362 S.E.2d 723 (1987)

CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA v. SISSON AND RYAN, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Eure (Ronald M. Ayers, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellant.

Wilbur L. Hazlegrove (Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, on brief), for appellees.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, THOMAS and WHITING, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

THOMAS, Justice.

In September 1979, a building under construction on behalf of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia (C & P) collapsed after a heavy rain. C & P sued its excavation-grading contractor, Sisson and Ryan, Inc. (S & R or the "grading contractor"), and S & R's surety, Federal Insurance Company (Federal). S & R filed third party claims against the project's architects, Smithey & Boyton (the "architects"), and against...

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