GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. WALDEN

No. 9729.

406 F.2d 606 (1969)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Dorethea M. WALDEN, the surviving spouse of Homer L. Walden, Deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

January 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Mott, Denver, Colo. (Zarlengo, Mott & Carlin, Denver, Colo., and Ross L. Malone, Roswell, N. M., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

John A. Criswell, Englewood, Colo. (Myrick, Criswell & Branney, Englewood, Colo., were with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before JONES, BREITENSTEIN and HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

The jury awarded appellee-plaintiff, Dorethea M. Walden, $95,000 for the death of her husband in a one-car automobile accident occurring in Arizona. The appellant-defendant, General Motors Corporation, seeks a reversal of the judgment because of claimed errors in the instructions.

On October 9, 1965, the decedent was driving south towards Tucson in a Corvair automobile which he had purchased about one month before and which had...

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