Moore v. City of Las Vegas

*404OPINION

Two issues ai;e presented for our consideration on this appeal from an order granting summary judgment dismissing a wrongful death action against the City of Las Vegas: (1) whether a district court judge is empowered to rehear a motion once denied by a judge who no longer holds office, and (2) whether summary judgment was appropriate as a matter of law.

Maude Jackson Moore, survived by a husband and seven children, was killed by an automobile at the intersection of Miller and La Salle Streets in Las Vegas on the evening of January 1, 1972. At the time of the accident, she was kneeling…