Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Adams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 8, 1961No. Record 5265, 5266, 5267PublishedCited by 7 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, C. J.
On the morning of January 5, 1959, Morton Adams was driving his car southwardly on Williamson road in the city of Roanoke, with his wife, Crescence, and their sixteen-year-old son, John, as passengers. After the Adams car had come to a stop in a line of traffic, awaiting a left turn by a car ahead, it was struck in the rear by a pickup truck driven by Curtis O. Simmons. As the result of the collision the Adams car was driven into the rear of the vehicle ahead of it and each of the occupants in the Adams car was injured. Both the Adams car and the Simmons truck were badly damaged. Each…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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