Case ID: or-app_43/html/0741-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      THORNTON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

On reconsideration by the court on its own motion, former opinion filed August 27 (41 Or App 637, 598 P2d 1244),
    former opinion modified December 24,
    respondent’s reconsideration denied December 13, 1979
    petition for review allowed January 15, 1980
    BLANTON, Respondent, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant.
    
    (No. [ AXXXX-XXXXX ], CA 11120)
    604 P2d 883
    Before Schwab, Chief Judge, and Thornton and Buttler, Judges.
    THORNTON, J.
   THORNTON, J.

In our decision in this case we made an erroneous statement of the applicable law in discussing defendant railroad’s third assignment of error, namely that the trial court erred by instructing the jury not to consider plaintiff’s pension benefits.

While this error does not change the result, we nevertheless deem it advisable to correct it.

Accordingly, the opinion is modified by striking the final paragraph of the opinion and substituting the following new paragraph:

"We do not find the court’s instruction in this regard to be error. In Eichel v. New York Central R. Co., 375 US 253, 84 S Ct 316, 11 L Ed 2d 307 (1963), the court expressly held that in an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act it is improper to consider disability payments made to the plaintiff under the Federal Railroad Retirement Act on the question of plaintiff’s motive for not returning to work.”
"Reversed and remanded for a new trial.”

Former opinion modified.