Howard v. Foster & Kleiser Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered by the circuit court in favor of the defendant notwithstanding the fact that the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $25,000. The defendant is an outdoor billboard advertising company for which the plaintiff was working upon one of its billboards at the time of his injury August 26, 1953. The cause was submitted to the jury upon charges of negligence after the trail judge had indicated willingness to direct a verdict. ORS 18.140. The plaintiff sustained injury when the lowest rung of a ladder upon which he had…