BOWIE v. MURPHY

Record No. 050728.

624 S.E.2d 74 (2006)

271 Va. 127

David M. BOWIE v. James T. MURPHY, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 13, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Bowie, pro se.

(Richard Carnell Baker; Amana Thompson Simmons; Baker Simmons, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether the circuit court erred in sustaining demurrers to plaintiff's assault claim and defamation claims against the pastor and other members of plaintiff's church.

BACKGROUND

Since this appeal comes to us from a circuit court's decision sustaining a demurrer, we "recite as true the well-pleaded facts in the motion for judgment."1

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