Saum v. Bonar

This is an action for personal injuries resulting from an automobile accident in which plaintiff’s car was “rear-ended” by defendant’s car. The trial court set aside a jury verdict for $1 in general damages and $350 in special damages and granted plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

Defendant appeals, contending that under the evidence this was a proper verdict and that this court should re-examine its prior decisions on this subject and should adopt the views as stated by Justice O’Connell, dissenting, in Flansberg v. Paulson, 239 Or 610, 618, 399 P2d 356 (1965), in which a somewhat similar…