Akiko Buxhoeveden, Administratrix of the Estate of Theodore v. Buxhoeveden, Deceased v. B & P Motor Express, Inc. And Chester T. Belback

I must respectfully dissent. It appears to me that, because the first accident was of a magnitude which might have caused death, submission of this case to a jury on the evidence here will invite a greater degree of speculation and conjecture than is permitted by the *453applicable law of Indiana. This, I think, we have no right to do, as the trial judge recognized, even though we might prefer to stretch so-called “reasonable inferences” into the area of speculation.

There is simply no direct or circumstantial evidence indicating which trauma caused the deaths. That the second crash, being the…