Louise D. Hansen v. Nicholas Moving & Storage, Inc., Formerly Known as City Transfer & Storage Co., Inc., an Idaho Corporation, and Hughie F. Weighall

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This diversity suit was brought by Louise Hansen against Nicholas Moving & Storage, Inc., and its agent, Hughie Weighall, a truck driver, to recover for the wrongful death of her daughter, Susan Hansen, and for damages for plaintiff’s own injuries. The cause arose out. of a collision between defendants’ truck and plaintiff’s automobile.

The United States District Court for the District of Utah directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on the issue of her own injuries, submitting the attendant issue of damages on the wrongful death claim to the jury. Plaintiff was awarded…