LAKE v. NORTHERN VA. WOMEN'S MED. CNTR.

Record No. 961088.

483 S.E.2d 220 (1997)

253 Va. 255

Tina Marie LAKE v. NORTHERN VIRGINIA WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B. Wessel, Reston, for appellant.

Mark A. Barondess (Brian D. West; Milissa R. Spring; Sandground, Barondess, West & New, on brief), Vienna, for appellees.

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


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether a plaintiff should be permitted to amend a motion for judgment at the threshold of trial to substitute the proper corporate defendant where the error in the original pleading was known to the defendants and actions taken by them misled the plaintiff as to the identity of the proper corporate defendant.

The material facts are not in dispute and primarily involve the various pleadings filed in this procedurally...

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