Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Butler

This is an appeal from a judgment. On September 12, 1940, at the intersection of First Avenue South and Eighteenth Street in Great Falls, Montana, a Chevrolet coupe owned and driven by K. H. Knudson collided with Larry J. Butler. From the injuries thus received Butler died. He left surviving him his widow, Marie L. Butler, and four minor female children, namely, Kathleen, Marie Ann, Shiela and Susan.

On December 17, 1940, the widow, Marie L. Butler, employed and retained J. P. Freeman, an attorney-at-law, to bring suit against K. H. Knudson for the damages resulting from his alleged negligent…