WARNER v. Mitchell Bros. Truck Lines

(Pro Tempore)

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment for defendant entered July 11, 1958, in the circuit court for Multnomah county pursuant to a vérdict of the jury. Plaintiffs are the widow and a minor child of Charles W. Warner, deceased. At the time of his death on January 4, 1957, deceased was employed by defendant as a truck driver and was crushed to death when a road scraper being transported in the trailer attached to the truck he was driving shifted against the cab of the truck.

The action was brought under the Employers’ Liability Act and generally charged defendant under ORS 654.305 of…