Lucero v. Ford Motor Co.

Justice Ingrid Gustafson delivered the Opinion of the Court.

***223¶1 Defendant Ford Motor Company (Ford) files an interlocutory appeal challenging the Eighth Judicial District Court's denial of its motion to change venue. We affirm.

¶2 This Court restates the issue on appeal as follows:

Whether the county in which a decedent's personal representative resides is a proper venue in survival and wrongful death actions pursuant to § 25-2-122(2), MCA.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶3 On May 22, 2015, Markkaya Gullett (Decedent), a resident of Mineral County, Montana, died of injuries suffered when…