Catale v. Vanport Manufacturing, Inc.

This is an action for wrongful death. Plaintiffs appeal from a trial court judgment granting defendant summary judgment. The question is whether a genuine issue of fact exists as to whether defendant, the owner of the real property on which plaintiffs’ child drowned, exercised sufficient control over the property to be responsible for the child’s death. The trial court ruled that defendant exercised insufficient control over the property to be responsible. We affirm.

Vanport Manufacturing, Inc. (Vanport) operates a sawmill in Boring. Hertrich is Vanport’s president and sole stockholder.…