Court Opinion

ID: 9620680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:45:57.618419+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:34:31.578456
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE CASTLES
dissenting:
I dissent. The general tenor of the majority opinion seems to be that, admitting there was some error committed, under the facts and circumstances of this case it could not be considered prejudicial and thus reversible. I shall not dwell long with this dissent. I do not approve the Court’s ruling on the per diem argument on measuring damages.
Neither can I approve the contradictory instructions given. Particularly the instructions on contributory negligence, or that a child could not be contributorily negligent as a matter of law, and then to give an instruction on the last clear chance doctrine seems to me to be so inconsistent as to require reversal.
I do concur with the majority opinion on the cross assignment of error as to interest allowable. I would go one step further and directly overrule Burns v. Eminger, 84 Mont. 397, 276 P. 437, even though it appears to have been overruled sub silentio in Daly v. Swift & Co., 90 Mont. 52, 300 P. 265.