Boise Cascade Corporation v. Lee

BLOODWORTH, Justice.

Defendants appeal from a $175,000 judgment rendered against them in a suit for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate sustained as a result of a collision between an automobile in which plaintiff’s intestate was a passenger and a tractor truck belonging to defendant, Boise Cascade Corporation, and being operated by its employee, defendant George Newton Roberts. We affirm.

At the time of the accident, plaintiff’s intestate, Mrs. Martha Mae Lee, was a passenger in an automobile driven by her son, Donald Wayne Lee, traveling at a moderate speed south on U. S. Highway 11…