Scarpelli v. Portland Electric Power Co.

We shall first consider the assignment of error predicated upon the refusal of the Circuit Court to direct a verdict in favor of the appellant. The facts material to this assignment of error we shall now outline. February 15,1926, at 9:15 p. m. the deceased and ten others were riding in a seven-passenger open model Hudson automobile south on East 12th Street in Portland. One Phillip Partipilo, seventeen years of age, was the driver; in the front seat, beside the latter, were two others. Seated on the rear seat was the deceased, his wife, and one other; on the deceased’s lap was his sixteen…