Case ID: or-app_39/html/0365-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      JOSEPH, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued January 25,
    affirmed March 19, 1979
    COOLEY, Respondent, Cross-Appellant, v. SUNDERMAN, Appellant, Cross-Respondent.
    
    (No. 97961, CA 11157)
    592 P2d 268
    James O. Garrett, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was Garrett, Seideman, Hemann & Robertson, P.C., Salem.
    David H. Leonard, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. On the brief were T. W. Churchill, and Churchill & Leonard, Salem.
    Before Schwab, Chief Judge, Buttler, Joseph, Judges, and Tongue, Judge Pro Tempore.
    JOSEPH, J.
   JOSEPH, J.

The trial court correctly ruled that respondent was accountable to appellant (his co-tenant and former wife) for the reasonable rental value of her share of the property in question after marital difficulties made continued co-occupancy infeasible. Palmer v. Protrka, 257 Or 23, 476 P2d 185 (1970); Beal v. Beal, 282 Or 115, 577 P2d 507 (1978). Neither party has demonstrated that the trial court’s determination of reasonable rental value, which was necessarily based on conflicting and imprecise evidence, was in error.

Affirmed.