Whang v. Houglum
Decision Date | 21 December 1955 |
Citation | 291 P.2d 720,206 Or. 125 |
Parties | Y. K. WHANG, Respondent, v. Arnold Emil HOUGLUM, Defendant, and John Hong, Appellant. * |
Court | Oregon Supreme Court |
W. H. Morrison, Portland, and Howard K. Beebe, Maguire, Shields, Morrison & Bailey, Portland, for appellant.
John H. Buttler, Portland, and Cake, Jaureguy & Hardy, Portland, for petition.
Before WARNER, C. J., and ROSSMAN, LATOURETTE, and PERRY, JJ.
In plaintiff's petition for rehearing we are told, in effect, that had we followed the case of Cockerham v. Potts, 143 Or. 80, 20 P.2d 423, we would have been compelled to affirm the trial court on the gross negligence question. The brief states:
In the opinion handed down we stated :
'* * * Whether gross negligence applies in a given case depends upon its own particular facts and circumstances.'
It was our view that the facts and circumstances of the Cockerham case were so entirely different from the facts in this case that it was not necessary to distinguish the two. In the Cockerham case it is stated [143 Or. 80, 20 P.2d 427]:
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