Egner v. City of Portland

Plaintiffs decedent was fatally injured when she was struck by an automobile in a crosswalk at S.E. 119th and Division in Portland. Plaintiff brought this wrongful death action against the city, alleging that it was negligent in its decision to change the crosswalk from a marked to an unmarked one, in removing some but not all of the surface material and lighting that marked the crosswalk and in failing to warn pedestrians that the marked crosswalk had been removed when the city knew or should have known that some pedestrians would not realize that fact. The trial court granted the city’s…