Potomac Hospital Corp. v. Dillon

329 S.E.2d 41 (1985)

POTOMAC HOSPITAL CORPORATION

v.

Josephine A. DILLON, Committee of Hilda Nadine Amidon.

Record No. 840438.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 26, 1985.

Randolph W. Church, Jr., Fairfax (Stephen M. Sayers, Gerald R. Walsh, Hunton & Williams, Miles & Stockbridge, Fairfax, on briefs), for appellant.

Frank J. Ceresi, Fairfax (Thomas J. Harrigan, Thomas J. Morris, Fairfax, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

STEPHENSON, Justice.

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