Prettyman v. Utah State Department of Finance

CROCKETT, Justice:

Shirley Ann Prettyman, widow of Ted LeRoy Prettyman, on November 2, 1965, received a workmen’s compensation award that the defendant State Insurance Fund pay a total of $19,245 for her husband’s death caused in an industrial accident. As permitted by the statute, she also commenced an action on June 14, 1966, against a third party, H. E. Lowdermilk Company, for damages alleging that its negligence caused the death of her husband. Fourteen months later, August 11, 1967, that action was settled for the sum of $65,000. Of that amount plaintiff had contracted to pay her…