Oldsen v. Jarvis

GARFIELD, Chief Justice.

This is a law action to recover from the operator and owner of an automobile, for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s decedent, a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Defendants have appealed from judgment on jury verdict against them.

Three errors are assigned: (1) Claimed excessiveness of the verdict for $15,000; (2) failure to grant a mistrial because of alleged improper jury argument by plaintiff’s counsel; and (3) allowing the chief of police to testify as to location and length of skid marks when, it is said, the testimony was based on hearsay. The first of these…