NOTTINGHAM v. WELD

Record No. 861108.

377 S.E.2d 621 (1989)

Emma Lee NOTTINGHAM, Administratrix of the Estate of Claude J. Nottingham, Sr., Deceased v. Theodore Vance WELD.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Imprevento (Stanley E. Sacks, Sacks & Sacks, Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

Edward L. Breeden, III (Lance A. Jackson, Breeden, MacMillan & Green, Norfolk, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

In this appeal, we decide whether a Virginia court correctly dismissed a cross-claim which should have been asserted as a compulsory counterclaim in an earlier federal court action involving the same parties and the same occurrence.

On July 6, 1984, a car operated by Theodore Vance Weld stopped on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, causing Claude J. Nottingham, Sr., the owner and operator of a truck following the Weld vehicle, to turn his truck sharply...

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