Elsenpeter v. Potvin

Not only Potvin’s affidavit, made in support of the petition to reopen, but also his testimony at the district court trials, is that long before the accident Norris Bowman, father of the deceased, had leased the repair shop and was operating it at the time of the accident which resulted in the death of his son. Potvin admits that his initial report to his insurer was otherwise and motivated exclusively by his desire to “get some money for Mrs. Bowman,” the widow.

The testimony of Norris Bowman, father of the deceased, leaves no doubt that, beginning in 1931, he was a lessee of “the repair…