LOVELACE v. LOVELACE

Record No. 861066.

375 S.E.2d 750 (1989)

William L. LOVELACE, et al. v. Kimberley E. LOVELACE, Administratrix, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan L. Hauser (Lyle, Siegel, Drescher & Croshaw, P.C., on brief), Virginia Beach, for appellants.

Robert W. Hardy (H. Hunter Clarke, W. Robert Turner, III, Claude Michael Scialdone, Knight, Dudley, Pincus, Dezern and Clarke, Norfolk, on brief), for appellees.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, THOMAS, and WHITING, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

In this case of first impression in the Commonwealth, we are called upon to decide the narrow issue whether statutory beneficiaries in a wrongful death action have standing to object to the reasonableness of attorney's fees awarded by the trial court. The trial court ruled that the beneficiaries lacked standing. We disagree.

On July 3, 1981, Robert Louis Lovelace died of injuries sustained the previous day in an automobile accident. His widow...

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