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Where a slander suit fails to contain the exact words creating the alleged tort and those words are necessary to determine whether a corporation’s agents were acting within their agency, a default judgment on the claim may be set aside ...

Where husband, since 1982, maintained his business in another location and had only “four or five hours” contact per month with his wife and four children, and husband began a relationship with another woman and ultimately took up residence with ...

Where defendant supplier of flame retardant treated plywood asserts in this products liability case that theories of recovery under the Uniform Commercial Code do not apply to the plywood at issue in this case since the plywood was incorporated into ...

Where defendant, the commonwealth’s attorney for the City of Richmond, wrote to a substitute general district court judge to complain about the judge’s comments to one of the assistant prosecutors, and in the letter, the commonwealth’s attorney told the judge ...

Although the trial court erred in requiring defendant to acknowledge a previous conviction for a named felony, his conviction of robbery nevertheless is affirmed. Here, the commonwealth failed to first pursue less prejudicial alternative avenues available to prove that defendant ...

Where the parties entered into a post-nuptial agreement which called for $1,500 per month in spousal support to the wife and also stated that the support payments were contractual and could not be adjusted except by written mutual agreement, the ...

Although the prosecutor said he struck three African-American male jurors because they were close in age to defendant (who was 25, while the three jurors were 22, 29 and 33), but the prosecutor did not strike white male jurors who ...

Although the job description provided to claimant’s physician indicated she should be able to perform her former job of “veneer drying oven-offbearer,” the testimony of claimant and of the employer’s safety coordinator indicate that hue job description was faulty and ...

Spousal Support Increase The trial court did not err in increasing spousal support for the wife where her health had deteriorated, she could not meet her expenses and her lifestyle had diminished from that established during the marriage, while the ...

Where the parties’ separation agreement provided that husband would convey to wife his interest in jointly owned real property in North Carolina, and wife would convey to husband her interest in the marital home, but the agreement did not make ...