Court Opinion

ID: 9553360
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:28:33.856419+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:30:55.709626
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DENECKE, J.,
specially concurring.
I specially concur with reference to item numbered 2. of the majority opinion, “The trial court did not err in excluding evidence relating to defendant’s disability and rehabilitation program.” I concur that the trial court committed no reversible error, but for different reasons.
The defendant was permitted to put in evidence that a Disability Control and Rehabilitation Program *46has been established on the Southern Pacific; that the committee reviewed plaintiff’s case and after review offered plaintiff a position as a clerk. Testimony was received that the Rehabilitation Committee consisted of the Assistant Division Superintendent, the claims representative, and a Portland physician.
The offer of proof only purported to offer some details of the rehabilitation program; for example, that it has been operating since early in the 1950s. Other parts of the offer of proof referred to facts which would not have been responsive to any questions set out in the assignments of error which were asked and to which objections were sustained; for example, the offer of proof included an exhibit listing the employees who had been given jobs with lighter duties. This would not have been responsive to any question set out in the assignment of error. For this latter reason and for the reason that error, if any, was minimal and, therefore, not prejudicial, I concur.