Stokes v. Lundeen

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment for defendant, following a jury trial, in a personal injury action arising from an auto collision. Plaintiff assigns error to the trial court’s refusal to grant a directed verdict against defendant’s affirmative defenses that plaintiff was negligent in causing the accident, including a defense that plaintiff was negligent per se in driving “more than [t]wenty miles per hour when passing school grounds [when] * * * [c]hildren are present.” ORS 811.105(2)(c)(A) (1995). We conclude, inter alia, that defendant was a member of the class of persons meant to be…