Legal Opinion
Wynkoop v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided January 22, 1998No. C7-96-1497PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, Justice.
Fifteen-year-old Ian Wynkoop was killed when the sport utility vehicle his 16-year-old girlfriend was driving rolled off the road. Ian Wynkoop’s mother, respondent Dawn Wynkoop, 1 filed a wrongful death action against appellant Ida Carpenter, the mother of Ian’s girlfriend, seeking to recover pecuniary damages for Ian’s next of kin. The Hennepin County District Court ruled that Ian’s brother, Shane Wynkoop, was not Ian’s “next of kin” within the meaning of the wrongful death statute, Minn.Stat. § 573.02 (1996), and thus was not entitled to recover pecuniary damages.…
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3Cited by43 opinions
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