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KELLY v. R.S. JONES AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

Record No. 900980.

406 S.E.2d 34 (1991)

Bill KELLY, Substitute Administrator, etc., et al., v. R.S. JONES AND ASSOCIATES, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Earls, Norton, for appellants.

William W. Eskridge (Richard E. Ladd, Jr., Penn, Stuart, Eskridge & Jones, on brief), Abingdon, for appellee R.S. Jones and Associates, Inc.

Elsey A. Harris, III (Mullins, Thomason & Harris, on brief), Norton, for appellees Piedmont Aviation, Inc., Avco Corp., and Pompano Air Center, Inc.

Present: All the Justices.

LACY, Justice.

In this consolidated appeal we consider whether release agreements, executed incident to a wrongful death claim arising from an airplane crash, constitute an accord and satisfaction barring the subsequent assertion of a wrongful death claim.

On October 12, 1987, Judy Phipps Jones died when the airplane in which she was a passenger crashed in Pompano Beach, Florida. On November 9, 1989, Christina Phipps, the only child of Judy Jones, filed a...

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