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Another Bill Eskridge case

By Steven R. Minor

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Today the Virginia Supreme Court decided in Johnston Memorial Hospital v. Bazemore that the plaintiff in a lawsuit that is a legal nullity (because the plaintiff had not qualified as personal representative to file a wrongful death case) cannot take a nonsuit.

One would imagine that a lawsuit that is a legal nullity cannot be res judicata on the merits, but I suppose they wanted the nonsuit to toll the statute of limitations.

Full post as published by Southwest Virginia Law Blog on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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