WILSON v. WYLIE

No. 1066.

518 P.2d 1213 (1973)

86 N.M. 9

Melvin H. WILSON, Personal Representative and Administrator of the Estate of Gregory Lee Wilson, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth Wayne WYLIE and Claude B. Wylie, Sr., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied January 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Roehl, James A. Parker, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, Knight & Sullivan, Herbert L. Cushing, Albuquerque, for defendants-appellants.

Charles G. Berry, Marchiondo & Berry, P.A., Albuquerque, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

LOPEZ, Judge.

Defendant Kenneth Wylie was the operator of an automobile which struck and killed plaintiff's decedent, a minor 7 years, 10 months old, who was riding a bicycle at the time. The trial court, sitting without a jury, awarded $57,000.00 for the present worth of the continued life of decedent and $10,000.00 for loss of society.

The defendants raise the following points for reversal of the judgment: (1) substantial evidence of proximate...

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