# Dunning v. Northwestern Electric Co.

> Oregon Supreme Court · October 19, 1948 · 186 Or. 379

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3840464

## Case

- **Full name:** Dunning v. Northwestern Electric Co.
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 19, 1948
- **Citations:** 186 Or. 379; 206 P.2d 1177; 199 P.2d 648; 1948 Ore. LEXIS 236
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Rossman
- **Judges:** Bossman, Lusk, Kelly, Hay, Rossman, Brand, Belt, Ross-Man, Bailey
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

ROSSMAN, O. J.,
specially concurring.
I concur in all of the foregoing with the exception of the two paragraphs which state and employ the
*399
doctrine of.
res ipsa loquitur.
I dissent from those paragraphs. The pole, which the plaintiff claims fell and injured him, stood in a public thoroughfare. The defendant, clearly, did not have the exclusive management and control of it. The facts concerning its condition were as available to the plaintiff as to the defendant.
John B. Becker,
of Portland, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Henry S. Gray and Laing, Gray & Smith, of Portland.
Frank C. Hanley,
of Portland, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

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