# Lamb-Weston, Inc. v. Oregon Automobile Insurance

> Oregon Supreme Court · June 24, 1959 · 219 Or. 110

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9559031

## Case

- **Full name:** LAMB-WESTON, INC. Et Al v. OREGON AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO.
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 24, 1959
- **Citations:** 219 Or. 110; 346 P.2d 643; 341 P.2d 110; 76 A.L.R. 2d 485; 1959 Ore. LEXIS 346
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing
- **Judges:** McAllister, Rossman, Lusk, Warner, Perry, Crawford
- **Cited by:** 214 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9559031

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that “the burden imposed on each insurer is generally proportional to the benefit which he received, since the size of the premium is most always directly related to the size of the policy”
- explaining that pro rata contribution “can easily be justified on an unjust enrichment basis”

## Opinion text

ON REHEARING
*130 Helm & Neely, La Grande, Minnick & Halmer and James B. Mitchell, Walla Walla, Washington, and Rhoten, Rhoten & Speerstra, Salem, for the respondents.
Fabre, Collins & Kottkamp, Pendleton, for the appellant.

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