Porter v. Headings

This is an action for personal injuries from an automobile accident near Corvallis. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1,500. Plaintiff appeals from the resulting judgment.

Plaintiff was over seven months’ pregnant at the time of the accident, in which she suffered lacerations of her face and knees, as well as contusions and bruises over her ribs and on her chest. She testified that her immediate concern after the accident was for the safety of the baby. She was taken to the hospital, where a nurse in the emergency room listened with a stethoscope for the baby’s…