FLAIM v. BERTI

No. 4116.

503 P.2d 863 (1972)

Celestino FLAIM, Personal Representative and Administrator of the Estate of Joseph Guido Flaim, Deceased, Appellant (Plaintiff below), v. Paul Dominick BERTI and John Dennis Browne, Appellees (Defendants below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murane, Bostwick, McDaniel, Scott & Greenlee, and Edward E. Murane, Casper, for appellant.

Bard Ferrall, Cheyenne, for appellee Berti.

E.J. Herschler, Kemmerer, for appellee Browne.

Before McINTYRE, C.J., and PARKER, McEWAN, and GUTHRIE, JJ.


Mr. Justice PARKER delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff filed a complaint for the wrongful death of Joseph Guido Flaim, alleging that the defendants, drivers of two automobiles involved in a drag race, were negligent, and asking jointly and severally for damages in the sum of $300,000. Defendants answered, claiming they were not negligent and that Flaim was contributorily negligent, such negligence being the proximate cause of the accident. The matter was...

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