DEAL v. NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOC.

No. C5-99-1691.

608 N.W.2d 922 (2000)

Todd E. DEAL, as Guardian Ad Litem for Wayne Howard Crow, Appellant, v. NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY, INC., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied June 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick M. Spott, Nancy C. von Seggern, Orman & Nord Law Office, Duluth, MN (for appellant).

W.D. Flaskamp, Minneapolis, MN (for respondents).

Considered and decided by WILLIS, Presiding Judge, RANDALL, Judge, and HUSPENI, Judge.


OPINION

DORIS O. HUSPENI,* Judge.

The trustee for appellant Wayne Howard Crow challenges the district court's judgment dismissing appellant's personal injury action subject to respondents' payment of special damages following appellant's death from unrelated causes. Because the district court correctly determined that punitive damages are not recoverable in a personal injury action when the plaintiff dies from a cause unrelated...

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