Hakala v. Megarry Bros.

In this action to recover damages for death by wrongful act, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant appeals from the judgment entered after the denial of the motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff decedent, while driving his vehicle in an easterly direction on U. S. Highway 210 at or near the county line separating Carlton and Aitkin Counties, was killed in the early evening of November 14, 1965, when his vehicle collided head on with a vehicle approaching in the west-bound traffic lane, causing deaths and serious injuries.

For some months preceding the day of the accident, the…