State v. Cress

OPINION

OGG, Judge.

This court is asked by defendants-appellants Ashton Construction Company and the State of Arizona to review a wrongful death action which terminated in a verdict for plaintiffs-appellees Lois F. Cress and Kim Cress in the sum of $216,000. Appellants raise three contentions of error: Failure of the trial court to grant defendants’ motion for directed verdict, improper instruction to the jury regarding its function in determining issues of contributory negligence and the prohibition against the admission of evidence of remarriage of a widow in a wrongful death action. We have…