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- Title: Gum v. Wooge
- Author : Supreme Court of Oregon
- Release Date : January 06, 1957
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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ROSSMAN, Justice. This is an appeal by the three defendants from a judgment in the sum of $20,000 which the circuit court entered in favor of the plaintiff, Stewart Gum, administrator of the estate of Gordon Ritchey Byerly, deceased. The judgment, which was based upon the verdict of a jury, was awarded for the benefit of the deceaseds widow and minor children. Two of the defendants, E. T. Cone and Verna M. Cone, were partners engaged in business under the firm name of Cone Logging Company. The third defendant, G. W. Wooge, was their employee. The deceased, Gordon Ritchey Byerly, was engaged in the logging business. November 26, 1954, at 10:30 a. m., Byerly was driving his motor logging truck, loaded with small logs, westerly upon a public thoroughfare known as Lowell Market Road and at the same time the defendant, Wooge, on behalf of his employers, the Cones, was operating their unloaded motor logging truck easterly upon the same road. The two vehicles collided upon the north half of the pavement. Byerly was mortally injured in the collision and died a few minutes later. The road was straight for a distance of 900 feet at the place of