Clohessy v. Weiler

This appeal deals with issues of a motor vehicle driver’s alleged willful and wanton negligence and a pedestrian’s alleged contributory negligence.

The defendant driver appeals a judgment confirming a jury’s verdict in the plaintiff pedestrian’s favor for $85,000. Consistent with familiar appellate principles, we state the evidence in the light most favorable to the pedestrian, who prevailed before the jury.

On October 16, 1992, around 10:00 p.m., after attending a football game at Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Lynn M. Weiler, the plaintiff, was walking home with her husband, Gary Weiler,…