Xenakis v. Garrett Freight Lines, Inc.

CROCKETT, Justice.

Four claims for wrongful death and one for personal injury arise out of a collision between a Studebaker sedan and a Garrett Freight Lines truck. Just before dawn, October 19, 1951, the Studebaker was traveling northward on U. S. Highway 91; as it rounded a long curve a short distance south of Kanosh, Utah, it collided practically head-on with the defendant’s truck which was going south. Four of the five occupants of the Studebaker were killed instantly and the other, Mrs. Connie Lietz, was severely injured.

These cases were consolidated for trial and are treated similarly on…