Waldner v. Stephens

In this action alleging negligence and other claims, plaintiffs sought damages from their former landlord for various injuries that, they alleged, had resulted from unhealthful conditions in a dwelling that they rented from that landlord. On defendant’s ORCP 21 A(8) motion, the trial court concluded that plaintiffs had failed to state a claim in common-law negligence, that the only claims that plaintiffs had pleaded were subject to the one-year statute of limitations set out in ORS 12.125 for “action[s] arising under a rental agreement or ORS Chapter 90 [(the Oregon Residential Landlord…