George v. Estate of Baker

OPINION

HANSON, Justice.

Gonkartee Dekpah was killed when the taxicab in which he was a passenger swerved across a median in a winter storm and was crushed by an oncoming tractor-trailer truck. Dekpah’s brother, appellant Bob Makor George, brought a wrongful death action against the drivers of the cab and truck. The jury found that both drivers were negligent but that neither one’s negligence caused the accident. The court of appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV). George argues that the jury’s finding of negligence but not causation was…