Jewell v. Ferrell & Associates

By JUDGE JACK B. STEVENS

This matter is before the Court upon Plaintiff’s Motion to Strike the Pleadings of Defendants, Donald G. Ferrell and Ferrell and Associates, pursuant to Section 8.01-401(B), Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, and enter Summary Judgment for Plaintiff; the Defendants having asserted a Fifth Amendment privilege not to answer Interrogatories.

Code § 8.01-401(B) provides that:

If any party, required by another to testify on his behalf, refuses to testify, the court, officer, or person before whom the proceeding is pending, may, in addition to punishing said party as for…