Opinion

Chaffin v. Chaffin

239 Or. 374
397 P.2d 771
1964 Ore. LEXIS 514

Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Filed: Dec 31, 1964
Status: Published
Author: Bossman
On the bench: McAllister, Rossman, Perry, Sloan, O'Connell, Goodwin, Denegre
Cited by: 31 cases
Authority: More cited than 6.6%

Overruled by Heino v. Harper, 306 Or. 347 (1988)

Later courts went against this

Overruled by Heino v. Harper, 306 Or. 347 (1988)
s also properly have found that parents whose `[p]hysical, mental or financial weakness [causes them] to provide what many a reasonable man would consider substandard maintenance, guidance, education and recreation for their children, and in many instances to provide a family home which is not reasonably safe as a place of abode,' should not be liable to the child for these `unintended injuries.' Chaffin v. Chaffin,…
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The opinion

*391 BOSSMAN, J.,

specially concurring.

I concur in the result reached by the majority, but prefer to submit as my reasons those expressed in my specially concurring opinion in Cowgill v. Boock, 189 Or 282, 302 , 218 P2d 445, 453 .

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