Legal Opinion
Young v. Lambert
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 28, 1997No. Record 961032PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Keenan
In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury on assumption of the risk.
On October 25, 1991, Phillip M. Lambert, Lisa Jordan Jones, Tammy Rutherford, and Christopher Reyes were killed when the vehicle owned by Rutherford and operated by Lambert veered off a road and collided with a tree. Robin R. and Robert R. Young, admin istrators of Rutherford’s estate (the plaintiff), brought this wrongful death action against Margaret A. Lambert, the administratrix of Phillip Lambert’s estate (the defendant).
The evidence at trial showed that Rutherford drove Jones to…
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