Rasmussen v. Sibert

Plaintiff recovered judgment entered upon a jury verdict for $15,000 as a result of personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident. From an order of the district court granting defendant a new trial, plaintiff appeals.

The accident in question occurred about 4:30 p.m. on August 3, 1966 on a county road west of Missoula leading from the Waldorf-Hoerner plant to U. S. Highway #10. Plaintiff Ray Rasmussen, an iron-worker employed by a contractor erecting a boiler building at the plant, was returning to Missoula after his day’s work in his 1954 Chevrolet pickup. Plaintiff was slowing down…