Rader v. Gibbons and Reed Company

This is an action for wrongful death. Plaintiff had a verdict and judgment in the amount of $40,000 and defendant appeals.

Plaintiff’s intestate, Steven Eader, was killed on June 11, 1969, at about 8:30 p.m. while he was driving his car in an easterly direction on Highway 212 in Clackamas county in the vicinity of West Linn. A rock entered the windshield of his car and apparently struck him on the head, causing death. There were no eyewitnesses who saw the rock strike the car. A new highway was under construction in the area at the time, and defendant was the general contractor for the…