SMITH v. STANAWAY

Record No. 910121.

410 S.E.2d 610 (1991)

Peter Daniel SMITH v. Robin STANAWAY, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Jon Perk, Newport News, for appellant.

Robert D. Hicks, Gloucester (Martin, Hicks & Ingles, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

The dispositive question in this appeal of a civil action for damages is whether an order drafted by the clerk of the trial court and entered by the trial judge, without notice to or endorsement of counsel, memorializing the court's action taken on the day of entry of the order sustaining a motion to strike the evidence, violated Rule 1:13 thereby rendering the order void.

The Rule, as pertinent, provides:

"Drafts of orders and decrees...

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