Goettelman v. Stoen

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

These consolidated appeals involve several questions which arose in the trials of two death actions growing out of an automobile collision. The two actions were tried separately.

Charles Goettelman, born in 1890, was a farmer and self-employed individual during his lifetime. His wife, Mabel, born in 1891, was a housewife. They were married in 1912, and reared four children, all of whom are now adults. Mr. Goettelman acquired a farm of about 31 acres from his father in 1937, and he and Mrs. Goettel-man lived there until their deaths in 1968. The farm is on the west side of…