Legal Opinion
Masters v. Hart
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 7, 1949No. Record No. 3541PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, C. J.
The question presented is whether the 1948 amendment to Code, section 61Q2, gives a defendant the absolute right to implead third-party defendants who may be liable to either plaintiff or defendant for all or part of plaintiff’s claim.
T. W. Hart, administrator of the estate of Ruth Eleanor Hart, deceased, instituted this action against the Consumers’ Utilities Company, Evelyn E. Masters, and W. W. Menefee, Jr., trading as W. M. Menefee & Son, for the wrongful death of his decedent. It was alleged in plaintiff’s notice of motion that: (1) decedent, while engaged in her usual vocation in…
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