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Lewis Hudgens (Mobile Funeral Home and Crematory); Rainbow Ranch Lodge (KBZK screenshot)

Lewis Hudgens (Mobile Funeral Home and Crematory); Rainbow Ranch Lodge (KBZK screenshot)

More than three years after filing a lawsuit accusing a Montana hotel of killing her husband via carbon monoxide poisoning while on their honeymoon, an Alabama widow is having her day in court. Catharine Hudgens on Monday appeared in Gallatin County District Court where jurors will decide whether the Rainbow Ranch Lodge and several plumbers should be held responsible for the 2021 death of her husband, Lewis Hudgens.

The wrongful death and negligence suit currently names the Rainbow Ranch Lodge and a swath of companies and contractors alleged to have worked on a propane-fueled boiler the suit claims gave off the deadly gas as defendants. Catharine Hudgens is seeking unspecified damages in the case.

Catharine and Lewis Hudgens on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, tied the knot in Florida before boarding a plane and heading to Big Sky, Montana, for their honeymoon on Monday, Jan. 11. They were married for less than a week before Lewis Hudgens was found dead inside of his hotel room at the age of 59.

According to a copy of the filed complaint obtained by Law&Crime, prior to the couple arriving at the Rainbow Ranch Lodge, the hotel had purchased and installed a new water boiler to heat an outdoor hot tub. The room that housed the new boiler was, the suit states, directly next to the room provided to the couple for their honeymoon stay.

Catharine Hudgens’ legal team alleges that holes had been drilled into the concrete wall separating the newlywed couple’s room from the boiler room. The suit claims that those holes allowed fatal amounts of carbon monoxide from the boiler to seep into the Hudgens’ room.

The suit claims that the boiler room was not properly ventilated, stating that an exhaust fan in the room “was not operational while the Hudgens stayed in the adjacent guest room.”

Additionally, Catharine Hudgens alleges that the hotel “failed to monitor carbon monoxide levels” in the boiler room, which would have warned them about the deadly gas being emitted.

The poisonous gas that allegedly flowed into the room left Lewis Hudgens dead and Catharine Hudgens severely ill and disoriented.

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