Mattfeld v. Nester, 32 N.W.2d 291 (1948)
- Citation
- Mattfeld v. Nester, 32 N.W.2d 291 (1948) 7.
- Parent Document
- Mattfeld v. Nester, 32 N.W.2d 291 (1948)
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota (state)
- Effective Date
- 1948-04-16
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Full Text
1,894 chars7. Where the negligence of one of several beneficiaries contributed to the death, recovery in an action for wrongful death may be denied to the extent that it would inure to the one guilty of contributory negligence. Luck v. Minneapolis St. Ry. Co. 191 Minn. 503, 254 N. W. 609; Anderson v. Anderson, 188 Minn. 602, 248 N. W. 35; Kokesh v. Price, 136 Minn. 304, 161 N. W. 715, 23 A. L. R. 643. The proper practice is to require the jury by general verdict to assess the entire damages for loss of the life to all the beneficiaries; to determine by special verdict whether any beneficiary of the recovery was guilty of contributory negligence; and then to deduct from the general verdict the amount of the special verdict if the latter is against the beneficiary. Peterson v. Anderson, 183 Minn. 86, 235 N. W. 534. The manner of determining whether a beneficiary of the recovery in a wrongful-death ease was guilty of contributory negligence is largely one of judicial administration. Where, as here, two actions arising out of the same accident are tried together, it is not important in which of the two the question is determined. The court had ,the power to determine it either by special verdict in the wrongful-death action or by general verdict in the beneficiary’s individual action. All that was required was that the question be determined as the basis for an apportionment if one should be made. Here, the court determined the question in the individual action. As a procedural matter, this was no different from taking a special verdict. The finding implicit in the verdict in the individual action is that plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence. If the verdict had been the other way, the court would have deducted from the recovery in the death case William’s share thereof. The procedure adopted for determining the question could not and did not prejudice defendant.