Sandberg v. Hoogensen

Plaintiff, administratrix in this wrongful death action, appeals from a jury verdict for the defendant executrix. Plaintiff alleges error in the submission of an instruction on assumption of risk, in the giving of instructions Nos. 8 and 11, and in admitting evidence concerning the blood alcohol content of plaintiff’s decedent. We affirm.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Dean M. Sandberg, was killed on August 14, 1973, while riding as a guest passenger in an automobile operated by defendant’s decedent, DeVem Hoogensen. Hoogensen died in the same accident, a one-car collision which occurred at 156th…