Lyons v. Walsh & Sons Trucking Co., Ltd.

In this personal injury case arising out of a fatal automobile accident, plaintiffs, the parents and co-personal representatives of the estate of Oregon State Police Trooper Scott Lyons, appeal from a jury verdict and judgment in favor of defendant Walsh & Sons Trucking Company. On appeal, plaintiffs argue that the trial court reversibly erred both in admitting evidence describing the fault of Lyons’s colleague, OSP Sergeant Rector, and in failing to instruct the jury that Rector’s conduct could be considered only if it was the “sole and exclusive” cause of Lyons’s death. We affirm.

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