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FOSSUM v. ZURN

No. 9781.

100 N.W.2d 805 (1960)

Odin FOSSUM, Administrator of the Estate of Gordon Fossum, Deceased, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Harold ZURN, d/b/a Zurn Hatchery, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

January 30, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene E. Pruitt, Acie W. Matthews, Sioux Falls, for defendant-appellant.

Samuel W. Masten, Canton, for plaintiff-respondent.

RENTTO, Judge.

This litigation was brought to recover for the wrongful death of Gordon Fossum resulting from an intersectional automobile collision. The verdict was in favor of the plaintiff. In answers to special interrogatories the jury found plaintiff's damage to be in the sum of $20,000 and that decedent's own contributory negligence was 10% of the total combined negligence proximately causing his injuries and the defendant...

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