Slagsvold v. Johnson

On November 21, 1974, the Hon. Robert H. Wilson, presiding over a jury trial in the district court, Yellowstone County, granted a directed verdict to defendant C. Allan Johnson in the wrongful death and survival action brought by Mary Slagsvold, executrix of the estate of Esther Christina Johnston.

Plaintiff’s decedent Esther Christina Johnston was a passenger in an automobile driven by Carl Dohlman, whose vehicle was involved in a collision with one driven by C. Allan Johnson at the intersection of U.S. Highway 87 and the north frontage road near Billings on October 22, 1971.'

The collision…