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ROUGHTON PONTIAC CORP. v. ALSTON

Record No. 860346.

372 S.E.2d 147 (1988)

ROUGHTON PONTIAC CORPORATION v. Roger N. ALSTON.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Smith, II (Ann F. Gillooly; Stackhouse, Rowe & Smith, Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

E. Carter Nettles, Jr., Wakefield, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

RUSSELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the tortious conversion of personal property. The dispositive question is whether a verdict exonerating a servant of tort liability also exonerates his master.

The facts are undisputed. On March 1, 1982, Roger N. Alston (Alston) went to the business premises of Roughton Pontiac Corporation (Roughton) in Norfolk to purchase a new car. He selected a new 1981 Pontiac Phoenix which sold for $9,726.59 and...

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