Holz v. Pearson

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial. The action, one for wrongful death, was brought by the special administratrix of the estate of Caroline A. Tetzloff.

The accident out of which this action arose occurred on October 7, 1946, at about 7:40 a. m. on U. S. Highway No. 169 a few miles south of Le Sueur, Minnesota. Decedent, a pedestrian who had alighted from a northbound bus, was crossing the highway from the east to the west side at a point in the immediate vicinity of the…