Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Rosston
Montana Supreme Court
Decided May 31, 1988No. 87-293PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gulbrandson
Patricia L. Cooper (Cooper) appeals a Second Judicial District Court, Silver Bow County, jury verdict award of damages for injuries she sustained in a pedestrian/automobile accident in Butte, Montana. We reverse and remand for a new trial.
This case involves an accident that occurred on Saturday, November 19, 1983, in the parking lot of the War Bonnett Inn, a motel in Butte, Montana. At approximately 11:00 p.m. that evening, a 1974 one-ton Chevrolet four-door pickup truck ran over Cooper. The driver of the pickup truck was Karl F. Rosston (Rosston) who was sixteen years old at the time.
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