Case ID: or_234/html/0186-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued April 1,
    affirmed April 17, 1963
    MIDDLETON v. LINN COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY et al
    380 P. 2d 979
    
      Laurence Morley, Lebanon, argued the canse for appellant. With him on the brief were Morley, Thomas & Orona, Lebanon.
    
      George A. Rhoten, Salem, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Myron En-field, and Rhoten, Rhoten & Speerstra, Salem.
    Before McAllister, Chief Justice, and Rossman, Sloan, Goodwin and Lusk, Justices.
   PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff alleged he sustained injuries when his person was struck by a falling stop sign situate at a , street intersection in Sweet Home. He claimed that defendant-Linn County Telephone Company had caused said sign to be broken; that defendant-Hamilton, as City Street Superintendent, had negligently failed to cause its repair. The trial court entered a motion of involuntary nonsuit in favor of the telephone company. Plaintiff has not appealed from that decision. The jury then found for defendant-Hamilton. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered on the verdict.

Plaintiff claims the court erred in certain of its instructions to the jury. The statements made to the jury of which plaintiff complains had been better left unsaid. But they were not prejudicial error. An examination of the record is convincing that, in any event, the judgment “* * * was such as should have been rendered * * Oregon Constitution, Article VII, §3.

Affirmed.