Williams v. Montana National Bank of Bozeman

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff entered in the district court, Gallatin County, following a jury verdict in the sum of $6,840, and denial of a motion for new trial.

Mrs. Rosa J. Williams, wife of plaintiff D. M. Williams, testified that on July 19, 1973, she was at their rural home when she saw a man coming up the walk. There was another man in a car who did not get out. The man told Mrs. Williams that he heard they had been having some bad electrical storms and that he was with a lightning rod company; that…