Lockard v. Whitenack

This litigation had its inception in a motion for judgment returnable on March 20, 1923, to the Corporation Court of the city of Roanoke. In it Seth *146Lockard undertook to notify L. O. Whitenack and P. G. Moore that he would ask judgment against them for damages caused by reckless operation of an automobile owned by Whitenack and run by his agent, Moore. This motion was served on Whitenack but not on Moore.

For the purpose of representing him, P. H. Dillard, Jr., a member of the law firm of Dillard, Moomaw & Dillard, went with Whitenack to that court on the morning of the return day. For some…