Armstrong v. Minor

WOLLMAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of appellee, Richard Armstrong, in a personal injury action. We affirm.

Appellee was fifty years old at the time of trial. In 1974, he injured his back in an accident while operating a snowcat en route to a work site in Wyoming. As a consequence of that injury appellee underwent surgery involving a bone fusion from the fourth lumbar vertebra to the first sacral vertebra. He was left with a permanent fifteen percent functional disability or limitation of motion. After surgery he began an…