Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Hodge

This is the second appeal which we have been called upon to consider in this case. The opinion disposing of the first appeal is found in 203 Va. 275, 123 S. E. 2d 372, under the style of Hodge v. Casualty Company.

The controversy between these parties commenced when Alpha Bowman Hodge, the plaintiff, filed a motion for judgment against Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Company, the defendant, seeking to recover $9,015.75. This sum was alleged to be the amount of a judgment which the plaintiff had secured against Thomas Edward Stone for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in an…