CHAPTER 281
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 55-86 of the Code of 1950, so
as to provide for reimbursement of certain expenses in-

curred as a result of personal injuries suffered by a mar-
ried woman.
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Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 55-86 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 55-36. Contracts of, and suits by and against, married
women.—A married woman may contract and be contracted with
and sue and be sued in the same manner and with the same con-
sequences as if she were unmarried, whether the right or lia-
bility asserted by or against her accrued heretofore or hereafter.
In an action by a married woman to recover for a personal in-
jury inflicted on her she may recover the entire damage sus-
tained including the personal injury and expenses arising out
of the injury, whether chargeable to her or her husband, not-
withstanding the husband may be entitled to the benefit of her
services about domestic affairs and consortium, and any sum
recovered therein shall be chargeable with expenses arising out
of the injury, including hospital, medical and funeral expenses,
and any person, including the husband, partially or completely
discharging such debts shall be reimbursed out of the sum recov-
ered in the action, whensoever paid, to the extent to which such
payment was justified by services rendered or expenses incurred
by the obligee, provided, however, that written notice of such
claim for reimbursement, and the amount and items thereof,
Shall have been served on such married woman and on the
defendant prior to any settlement of the sum recovered by her;
and no action for such injury, expenses or loss of services or con-
sortium shall be maintained by the husband.