Surface, Adm'x v. Johnson, Adm'x

This is an action brought under the wrongful death statute, Code § 8-633, by Juanita K. Surface, Administratrix of the Estate of Sandra Jane Surface, deceased (plaintiff), against Peggy S. Johnson, Administratrix of the Estate of J. Fred Johnson, deceased (defendant). At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence-in-chief, the trial court sustained the *778defendant’s motion to strike the plaintiff’s evidence. We granted a writ of error to review this ruling.

In these circumstances, the plaintiff is entitled to have the evidence, and all reasonable inferences therefrom, viewed in the light most…