Calvert v. Super Propane Corporation

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

In this $25,000 action for damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s husband, George William Calvert, the trial court directed the verdict and entered judgment against plaintiff and in favor of both defendants. The grounds upon which the court acted were that the deceased was con-tributorily negligent as a matter of law in being on the wrong side of the road, and that there was no evidence of any negligence of Basil Dean, the driver of the pickup truck involved in the head-on collision with deceased.

The witnesses gave the following testimony relative to the issues…