Whitlock v. State Industrial Accident Commission

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Walter Whitlock, from a judgment which the circuit court entered in favor of the defendant, State Industrial Accident Commission, after sustaining a motion of the defendant for the entry of judgment in its favor as permitted by ORS 18.140 notwithstanding the jury’s return of a verdict in the plaintiff’s favor. The action was instituted by the plaintiff upon averments that while he was in the employ of Isham and Albertine West, contributors to the Workmen’s Compensation Fund, he sustained an injury and was entitled to an award of compensation, but that the…