Meads v. Dibblee

WADE, Justice.

Leonard Meads, father of Ellen Meads, a minor child of 17 years, brings this action under Section 78-11-6, U.C.A.1953, to recover damages to him for her death caused by a highway collision. He sues Richard C. Dibblee, administrator of the estate of John Richard Salmon, deceased, driver of the vehicle in which Ellen was riding and Merrill Byron Colton, driver of the trailer-truck with which it collided.

The accident occurred about 10:45 p. m. in the evening of June 10, 1958, on U. S. Highway 91, just east of 5th East Street in American Fork, Utah. Ellen and John, who were engaged…