Legal Opinion
Nelson v. Johnson
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided August 25, 1999No. 980324PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARING, Justice.
[¶ 1] Scott W. Johnson appealed from an amended judgment awarding James E. Nelson and Kathleen F. Nelson $825,-681.47 in a wrongful death action, and from an order denying his post-trial motion to deduct from the jury’s damage award $175,000 the Nelsons received from a release and settlement agreement with an additional defendant, William Johnson. We affirm.
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[¶2] On November 12, 1995, Matthew Nelson, the Nelsons’ eight-year-old son, died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in West Fargo, when Scott Johnson, who was driving his father’s pickup, collided with the…
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