Adams v. Davis

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs after trial by jury, and from the court’s order denying a motion for a new trial. The appeal is from the district court of the eighteenth judicial district of the State of Montana, the Honorable Lester H. Loble having been called in to preside.

The facts of the case, brought out in a well-tried case, are clear and revealing. The defendant, a man of 72 years, described as a free-wheeling, cantankerous, self-made man, drove a 1959 Cadillac into the rear part of…