Bond v. Roos

*656KELLEY, Justice.

The trial court, in ruling on a petition to approve distribution of a settlement of a death claim arising out of a motor vehicle accident, refused to allocate to the deceased child’s mother any of the net settlement proceeds although there had been neither a judicial determination nor admission of fault. The trial court concluded that public policy prohibited her from benefiting from her own negligent wrongdoing. We reverse.

Dane Swenson, an infant, was killed in an automobile accident when an automobile driven by his mother, appellant Janice Lynn Swenson, collided with a…