Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Bristow

This litigation arose out of an automobile accident which occurred on the night of March 18, 1964, on Route 33 near West Point in New Kent County. The same accident was the subject of an earlier opinion, on unrelated issues, by this court in the case of Cowles v. Zahn, 206 Va. 743, 146 S. E. 2d 200.

At approximately 8:15 p.m. on the date in question, the automobile of Charles Edward Zahn had stalled while being operated by Zahn in an easterly direction on Route 33. The vehicle came to a stop “partially on the hard surface” with the right wheels “in the ditch.”

James Horace Bristow was a…