Gordon v. Pappas

Loring, Chief Justice.

This action was brought under the death-by-wrongful-act statute. It comes to the writer by reassignment.

On May 8, 1946, Eobert U. Gordon, 21 years of age, plaintiff’s decedent, accompanied the defendant Peter Pappas, Jr., another young man, from Shevlin to Bemidji, Minnesota, in the car of defendant Peter Pappas, Sr. They spent the late afternoon and evening in Bemidji and left for home around or after eleven o’clock. A considerable distance ahead of them on the highway, going west, were John Hall and his family in his Ford truck. John was driving. His two sons, aged six…