Rough v. Lamb

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in an automobile collision. The jury returned a verdict for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in refusing to hold that the defendants were negligent as a matter of law, and in failing to withdraw from the jury the defenses of contributory negligence in general and certain specific allegations of contributory negligence in particular.

The collision—a chain reaction affair—occurred on McLoughlin Boulevard in Clackamas county, early on a wet morning in November, 1961.…