Banks v. City of Richmond

232 Va. 130 (1986)

348 S.E.2d 280

PAMELA BANKS

v.

CITY OF RICHMOND

Record No. 830311

Supreme Court of Virginia

September 5, 1986

S. Keith Barker (Tuck, Freasier & Herbig, on brief), for appellant.

William Joe Hoppe, Assistant City Attorney for appellee.

Present: All the Justices

A judgment for defendant in a negligence action is affirmed where plaintiff's evidence failed to establish that defendant's conduct was a proximate cause of plaintiff's injury.

Defendant City's employee, responding to the calls of a tenant, discovered a small gas leak in an apartment oven.The apartment maintenance man turned off…