Schaedler v. Columbia Contract Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Bobert Gr. Morrow, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by Olive Mae Schaedler against the Columbia Contract Company, a corporation, to recover damages for a personal injury. The facts are that the defendant, a corporation, is a dealer in sand, gravel and crushed rock, which material it transports on the Columbia and Willamette Bivers to Portland by barges that are towed by steamboats.
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From Multnomah: Bobert Gr. Morrow, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by Olive Mae Schaedler against the Columbia Contract Company, a corporation, to recover damages for a personal injury. The facts are that the defendant, a corporation, is a dealer in sand, gravel and crushed rock, which material it transports on the Columbia and Willamette Bivers to Portland by barges that are towed by steamboats. The defendant owns at that city on the east side of the Willamette Biver a wharf, the deck of which rests upon piling driven into the ground. At the south end…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
1. The court told the jury that, though the facts set forth in the complaint stated a case' within the provisions of the employers’ liability act, the evidence, however, failed to establish such averment. The jury were further instructed in effect that the plaintiff’s contributory negligence, if they should find her guilty thereof, was not a bar to the maintenance of the action, but was a circumstance which they should consider in the reduction of damages to which she might otherwise be entitled. An exception having been *415taken, by defendant’s counsel to the latter instruction, it is contended…
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