HANNIGAN v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 10351.

384 P.2d 493 (1963)

Reba E. HANNIGAN, Sole Heir of Wiley R. Hannigan, Deceased, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, a Wisconsin Corporation, Richard John Stiefvater, Adrian Harold Ramberg, and Earl Joseph Ayers, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided August 5, 1963.

As Amended September 5, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brattin, Habedank & Cumming, Sidney, Lamey, Crowley, Kilbourne, Haughey & Hanson, Bruce R. Toole (argued), Billings, for appellants.

Milton G. Anderson (argued), Sidney, Floyd O. Small (argued), Helena, for respondent.


DOYLE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in the sum of $67,500.

The jury verdict was the result of a fatal crossing accident about three miles south of Sidney in Richland County between the driver of a car, the decedent Hannigan and a freight train of the Northern Pacific Railway Company.

The facts in this tragedy are these: Wiley Hannigan, the decedent...

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