CHAPTER 430

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-636, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the maximum amounts and distribution of damages re-
coverable for death by wrongful act.

[H 216]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-636, as amended, 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 thirty-five thousand dollars,
and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the surviv-
ing 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
grandchildren, 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.