Goodwin v. Rowe
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice McNary. This is an action by Orton E. Goodwin against Edgar W. Rowe and Harry J. Martin, doing business under the firm name and style of Rowe & Martin, to recover damages for personal injuries, which resulted in a verdict and judgment against defendants for $7,250. After alleging that in the summer of 1909 defendants were partners engaged in conducting a retail drug-store in Portland, Oregon,…
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From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice McNary. This is an action by Orton E. Goodwin against Edgar W. Rowe and Harry J. Martin, doing business under the firm name and style of Rowe & Martin, to recover damages for personal injuries, which resulted in a verdict and judgment against defendants for $7,250. After alleging that in the summer of 1909 defendants were partners engaged in conducting a retail drug-store in Portland, Oregon, the complaint asserts: That at the time of the injury to plaintiff the pharmacy was in charge of one G. H. Hall, an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McNary
Upon the graver issues of the case, the testimony demonstrates that defendants’ pharmacy was, at the time of the plaintiff’s misfortune, under the exclusive control of an unregistered drug clerk, who supplied plaintiff with and applied to his forearm, wrist and fingers pure trikresol, an extremely caustic drug.
The clerk and the physician gave variant testimony concerning what occurred in the drug-store about the time of the administration of the medicine; Dr. M. J. Denny stating that: “I think, as I entered the drugstore, Mr. Goodwin was in the back part of the store talking to Mr. Hall, and…
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