Scofield v. Estate of Wood

The James J. Wood estate appeals a judgment awarded against it in the sum of $24,000 based on a jury verdict finding decedent 80 percent negligent and plaintiff Daniel J. Sanders 20 percent negligent in an action for wrongful death in the Beaverhead County District Court.

Decedent Wood was proceeding north on Highway 41 in Beaverhead County and decedent Sanders proceeding south on the same highway when the two vehicles collided about eight miles north of Dillon, Montana. The drivers of both vehicles had been drinking beer the evening immediately prior to the early morning accident. The…