Jorgenson v. Hillestad

The principal question on this appeal is whether the proof sustains the jury’s award of $5,000 as King’s damages for injuries sustained by him as the result of Hillestad’s negligence in operating his automobile on June 28, 1945; and whether that award was warranted by the proof depends on whether there was sufficient competent, credible evidence from which the jury could find that the injuries then sustained by King as the result of Hillestad’s negligence were the cause of a heart attack which King had on August 15, 1945, by reason of a coronary occlusion.

It appears without dispute that as…