Case ID: or-app_154/html/0445-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      WOLLHEEM, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted October 7, 1997,
    affirmed June 10,
    petition for review denied October 20, 1998 (327 Or 620)
    Alice R. FOWLER, individually, and Alice R. Fowler, Personal Representative of the Estate of Annalycia Cruz, a child, Appellant, v. William Russell SPEAR, Respondent.
    
    (9504931CV; CA A96312)
    958 P2d 905
    Donald R. Crane argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.
    Michael L. Spencer argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Spencer, Runnels, MacArthur & Porras, LLP.
    Before De Muniz, Presiding Judge, and Haselton and Wollheim, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
    Wollheim, J., concurring.
    
      
       Wollheim, J., vice Rossman, S. J.
    
   WOLLHEEM, J.,

concurring.

An infant child, through her guardian ad litem, brought this negligence action against her babysitter to recover damages resulting from the loss of her mother’s society, companionship, and services (loss of parental consortium). When the child was seven months old, she was entrusted to the custody and care of defendant. Defendant allegedly left the child unattended in his vehicle outside of a store. The child disappeared and has not been seen since. The trial court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failing to allege sufficient facts to constitute a claim. I agree with the majority’s holding affirming the trial court based on Norwest v. Intercommunity Hosp., 293 Or 543, 652 P2d 318 (1982). However, if I were writing on a clean slate, I would reverse on the reasoning set forth in Justice Lent’s dissent in Norwest, 293 Or at 570-74.