Johnstone v. Chapman Timber Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From MultnomalL: Robert G-. Morrow, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. Tbis is an action by Jack Johnstone against the Chapman Timber Company, a corporation, and the Nehalem Timber and Logging Company, a corporation, for personal injuries. From a judgment for $2,500 on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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From MultnomalL: Robert G-. Morrow, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. Tbis is an action by Jack Johnstone against the Chapman Timber Company, a corporation, and the Nehalem Timber and Logging Company, a corporation, for personal injuries. From a judgment for $2,500 on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. It appears that at the time of the accident which occurred on November 21, 1912, the defendant Chapman Timber Company was operating a logging camp near Scappoose, Oregon, in conducting which it used two certain donkey-engines, one called a “yarder” and the other a “roader.”…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
Counsel for defendants timely interposed a motion for a nonsuit and one for a directed verdict in favor of defendants upon the grounds, among others: (1) That there was not sufficient evidence against the defendants to submit the case to the jury; and (6) that the evidence and pleadings show that another suit was started in this court and was compromised and settled between the parties, that there was an order of dismissal “with prejudice” to any future action, that the *679judgment is an adjudication of this case just as though there had been a verdict of the jury, and that it cannot be attached…
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