VANDEVEERE-PRATT v. PORTLAND HABILITATION

080506953; A142843.

259 P.3d 9 (2011)

242 Or. App. 554

Teresa VANDEVEERE-PRATT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PORTLAND HABILITATION CENTER, INC., an Oregon nonprofit corporation, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided May 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Leonard argued the cause for appellant. With her on the briefs was Jon Zbinden .

Todd S. Baran argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent.

Before SCHUMAN, Presiding Judge, and WOLLHEIM, Judge, and NAKAMOTO, Judge.


NAKAMOTO, J.

Plaintiff appeals a judgment for defendant in this slip and fall case, assigning error to the trial court's failure to give one instruction to the jury and its decision to give another. We hold that the trial court erred in failing to give the first instruction and that the second instruction was potentially misleading; we therefore reverse the trial court's judgment.

We state the facts in the light most favorable to the giving of the challenged...

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