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GEORGE v. ESTATE OF BAKER

No. A05-108.

724 N.W.2d 1 (2006)

Bob Makor GEORGE, as Trustee for the Heirs of Gonkartee Dekpah II, deceased, Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Dennis Allen BAKER, et al., defendants and third party plaintiffs, Respondents, v. CRST, Incorporated, et al., third party defendants, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 22, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick D. Reilly, Erstad & Riemer, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, Jeannie Provo-Petersen, Johnson, Provo-Petersen, LLP, Saint Paul, MN, for Respondents.

Phillip K. Jacobson, Kelly & Jacobson, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellant.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

OPINION

HANSON, Justice.

Gonkartee Dekpah was killed when the taxicab in which he was a passenger swerved across a median in a winter storm and was crushed by an oncoming tractor-trailer truck. Dekpah's brother, appellant Bob Makor George, brought a wrongful death action against the drivers of the cab and truck. The jury found that both drivers were negligent but that neither one's negligence caused the accident. The court of appeals affirmed the district...

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