REED v. LANDSTAR LIGON, INC.

No. 01-7056.

314 F.3d 447 (2002)

Kirk REED and Jennifer Gordon, Parents of Travis Reed, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LANDSTAR LIGON, INC., a corporation, Jack Pierce Trucking Co., and Donald Lee Lambertson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Kionka (S. Daniel George, Sallisaw, OK, and H. Ray Hodnett, Van Buren, AR, with him on the briefs), Carbondale, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joseph R. Farris (Jody R. Nathan with him on the brief), Feldman, Franden, Woodard & Farris, Tulsa, OK, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MURPHY, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

This is a negligence action brought in federal court under diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Plaintiffs' fifteen-year-old son, Travis Reed, was driving an all terrain vehicle on a rural road in Oklahoma when a truck driven by Defendant Lambertson struck and killed him. A jury returned a verdict for $500,000, and apportioned sixty percent fault to the truck driver and forty percent fault to Travis, resulting in an overall...

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