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· 12/2/1983

Pullen v. Nickens

Citations

  • 310 S.E.2d 452
  • 226 Va. 342
  • 1983 Va. LEXIS 291

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that private rules are inadmissible in evidence either for or against a litigant who was not a party to such rules because a party’s adoption of private rules cannot fix such party’s duty to other
  • holding a company's private rules inadmissible for purposes of establishing a standard of care in negligence case
  • reaffirming Godsey and holding that State Highway Department’s internal rules were inadmissible
  • “‘a person cannot, by the adoption of private rules, fix the standard of his duty to others.’”
  • in personal injury case brought by injured motorist against highway workers, concluding that it was reversible error for internal highway employee guidelines to be admitted to establish standard of care where no motorists knew about or relied upon the internal guidelines

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Judges: Cochran

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