Fuller v. Merten

Plaintiff appeals from a jury verdict that awarded her damages for injuries she sustained when her car collided with defendant’s van. Plaintiff assigns error to the trial court’s refusal to give two requested jury instructions. She contends that the failure to give those instructions resulted in a verdict that did not compensate her for, among other things, a fractured bone in her neck. We reverse and remand.

We “reviewt ] the evidence in the light most favorable to the establishment of the facts necessary to require giving the requested instruction.” Hernandez v. Barbo Machinery Co., 327 Or…