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J & E EXPRESS, INC. v. HANCOCK PEANUT CO.

Record No. 771124.

255 S.E.2d 481 (1979)

J & E EXPRESS, INC., and Charles Spears, Jr. v. HANCOCK PEANUT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donnell P. Davis, Norfolk (Richard A. Saunders, Furniss, Davis & Rashkind, Norfolk, on brief), for plaintiffs in error.

Richard C. Grizzard, Boykins, for defendant in error.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN, POFF and COMPTON, JJ.

HARRISON, Justice.

The Hancock Peanut Company sought to recover damages caused by the alleged negligence of Charles Spears, Jr., who in operating a tractor-trailer for his employer, J & E Express, Inc., struck and ruptured an extension pipe attached to plaintiff's warehouse sprinkler system. The subsequent damage to the peanuts stored in the building was stipulated at trial. The case was submitted to the jury on the issues of defendants' negligence and the proximate...

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