Peters v. Independent School District Number 657

OPINION

KALITOWSKI, Judge.

Appellant school district challenges the trial court’s jurisdiction to grant a new trial and the trial court’s determination that failure to submit Minn.Stat. § 169.19, subd. 4 (1986) as a jury instruction constituted an error of law. Respondents, Angela and Calvin Peters, appeal the trial court’s denial of their motions for a new trial on the issue of damages.

FACTS

On September 15, 1987, Gordon Butler, a Morristown School District bus driver, was driving a school bus east on Highway 60. Although the speed limit on Highway 60 is 55 miles per hour, eastbound traffic was…