Pratt v. Queen

By JUDGE EDWARD L. RYAN, JR.

Defendant Mary Queen moves the court to set aside the verdict for $20,000.00 in favor of the plaintiff and invokes in support thereof the principles enunciated in Massie v. Firmstone, 134 Va. 450 (1922), and the subsequent long line of Virginia cases following those principles. In essence, a litigant is bound by his own testimony and cannot rely on the contradictory or different testimony of others to sustain a recovery.

He cannot be heard to ask that his case be made stronger than he makes it, where, as here, it depends upon facts within his own knowledge and as to…