CHAPTER 60

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-686 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
amount and distribution of damages in actions for death by wrong-

ful act.
[H 93]

Approved February 18, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8636 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 8-636. The jury in any such action may award such damages as
to it may seem fair and just, not exceeding * twenty-five thousand dollars,
and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the surviving
widow or husband and children and grandchildren of the deceased, or if
there be none such, then to the parents, brothers and sisters of the
deceased. Nothing shall be apportioned to the parents, brothers and sisters
of the deceased, if there be a surviving widow or husband, children or
yrandchildren, but between members of the same class the jury shall have
absolute discretion as to who shall receive the whole or any part of the
recovery.