Curtis v. Lawley

In a wrongful death action Edna E. Lawley obtained a judgment in the sum of $10,000.00 against Philip Wayne Curtis. Curtis seeks a reversal of this judgment by writ of error, urging as grounds therefor that the trial court committed prejudicial error in several réspects.

William Lawley, the husband of Mrs. Lawley, was employed by the Northwestern. Engineering Company as a truck driver. Northwestern was building a two-lane highway in Colorado, commonly known as the Valley Highway, and that portion of the project known as the Denver-Broomfield Junction was nearing completion at the time Mr.…