Vokoun v. City of Lake Oswego

Plaintiffs initiated this action against the City of Lake Oswego (City) for negligence and inverse condemnation for damage to their property resulting from a landslide that occurred following an unusually heavy rain. They alleged that the landslide was caused by the City’s failure to maintain its storm drainage system properly. The trial court allowed the claims to go to the jury, which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs on both claims. The trial court struck a portion of the negligence verdict as duplicative of the inverse condemnation claim, entered judgment for plaintiffs, and…