Chap. 478.—An ACT for relief of J. T. Leftwich. [S B 138]
Approved March 26, 1928

Whereas, on the sixteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and
twenty-five, a certain truck belonging to the State highway commission
of Virginia, and used in the construction of the State highway svstem.
was being driven by Rollie Minnick, one of the employees of said com-
mission, upon its business, along one of the public highways of the
State of Virginia, near Lynchburg, known as the Link road, and the
said truck was not equipped with adequate and proper brakes as re-
quired by law, so that in going down a long hill on the said road, the
said truck could not be controlled by said driver and ran at a terrific
rate of speed down said hill, around a curve, into a new Chevrolet
automobile owned and then being driven along said public road bv J.
T. Leftwich, totally demolishing the said automobile and killing Frank
L. Spence, who was a passenger in said automobile; and,

Whereas, the State of Virginia is immune from suit on account of
the total destruction of said Chevrolet automobile, but desires to make
just compensation therefor; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
be, and hereby is, appropriated out of the funds in the State treasury
appropriating for the construction and reconstruction of State high-
ways and to meet the federal aid, the sum of three hundred dollars to
J. T. Leftwich, and the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized
and directed to draw his warrant in favor of J. T. Leftwich for the
sum of three hundred dollars.