· 9/12/1997
Afify v. Simmons
Citations
- 254 Va. 315
- 492 S.E.2d 138
- 1997 Va. LEXIS 90
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the circuit court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider the amended pleading rendered “the trial and verdict on that pleading . . . nullities”
- holding that when a defendant removed detinue claims to the circuit court prior to a trial, the statute did not permit the plaintiff to increase the damages beyond the jurisdictional limits of the district court
- involving a similar amended pleading filed by plaintiffs in the circuit court that supplanted several detinue warrants removed to that court by the defendant prior to trial
- breach of contract claim for wages and expenses
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Judges: Carrico, Compton, Stephenson, Lacy, Keenan, Koontz, Whiting
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