VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 9.070
Property Damage: Partial but Disputed Loss—Measure of Damages
Where personal property is partially damaged, the measure of damages is the difference in
value of the property immediately before and immediately after the accident plus the necessary
and reasonable expenses shown by the evidence to have been incurred by the plaintiff as a result
of the damage. If, however, the cost of repairing the damaged property is less than the difference
in value immediately before and immediately after the damage, then the measure of damages is
the reasonable cost of repair with a reasonable allowance for depreciation.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
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