Legal Opinion

Nottingham v. Weld

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided March 3, 1989No. Record 861108PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtWhiting, J.

In this appeal, we decide whether a Virginia court correctly dismissed a cross-claim which should have been asserted as a compulsory counterclaim in an earlier federal court action involving the same parties and the same occurrence.

On July 6, 1984, a car operated by Theodore Vance Weld stopped on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, causing Claude J. Not tingham, Sr., the owner and operator of a truck following the Weld vehicle, to turn his truck sharply in an unsuccessful effort to avoid striking Weld’s car. Nottingham lost control of his truck, which ran off the bridge and into the Chesapeake Bay.…

2Cases cited18 opinions

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