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Shumate v. Mitchell

FILED status graphic: Shumate v. Mitchell. 180012 Shumate v. Mitchell 12/20/2018 In a rear-end intersection collision personal injury action, the trial court did not err in admitting hearsay statements of the deceased defendant driver -- testified to by his son who was not at the scene of the collision but heard his father make these post-collision statements -- because Virginia's Dead Man's Statute, Code § 8.01-397, provides that in any action by or against a deceased or disabled person, all memoranda or declarations of that person are…
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