Strong v. Williams

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

■This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered following a $15,000 jury verdict for the plaintiff and from the denial of defendant’s motion for a new trial. The district court directed a verdict for the plaintiff on the question of liability, submitting the question of damages to the jury. This ruling is not appealed from.

From the record it appears that plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident which occurred about 10:45 p.m. on May 9, 1968, about one mile east of Missoula, Montana. Plaintiff was driving…