HENDERSON v. GAY

Record No. 920932.

429 S.E.2d 14 (1993)

Wanda P. HENDERSON v. Dana L. GAY, Administrator of the Estate of Ruth A. King, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hazel E. Davenport, Chester (Traylor & Morris, on brief), for appellant.

Louis C. Shell, Petersburg (Pamela Shell Baskervill, White, Hamilton, Wyche & Shell, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, WHITING, LACY, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


KEENAN, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this personal injury action is whether the trial court erred in setting aside a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff and entering judgment for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff was contributorially negligent as a matter of law.

On December 9, 1988, a vehicle operated by Wanda P. Henderson was struck by a vehicle driven by the appellee's decedent, Ruth A. King. The accident occurred at 2:11 p.m., in a...

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