Legal Opinion
Hinchey v. Ogden
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided October 14, 1983No. Record 810520PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoff, J.
This is a plaintiffs appeal from a judgment sustaining a defendant’s plea of sovereign immunity.
The motion for judgment alleged that an eastbound motorcycle and a westbound automobile collided head-on in the eastbound lane of the Norfolk-Virginia Beach Expressway. Virginia Hinchey, a passenger on the motorcycle, sued Donald Lee Henderson, operator of the automobile, and Neal A. Ogden in his capacity as Superintendent of the Expressway. Plaintiff demanded judgment against the defendants, jointly and severally, in the sum of $1,500,000 on account of personal injuries Hinchey sustained in *237the…
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