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last clear chance doctrine in Oregon

10 Oregon opinions name it 1 courts 1914–1972 0 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Oregon courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (3)

CaseFollowedCited
Niday v. Tomasinigreen
or · 1965 · cited in 2 Oregon opinions naming this issue, 1967–1971
2 sentences

1967See Niday v. Tomasmi, 240 Or 589, 594 , 403 P2d 704 (1965), for the factual elements that will invoke the doctrine of last clear chance.

1967See Niday v. Tomasmi, 240 Or 589, 594 , 403 P2d 704 (1965), for the factual elements that will invoke the doctrine of last clear chance.

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Lindsey v. Southern Pacific Co.green
or · 1965 · cited in 2 Oregon opinions naming this issue, 1971–1972
2 sentences

1972The last clear chance doctrine in Oregon is known as the doctrine of “discovered peril.” We have repeatedly held that “a defendant cannot be held to have the last clear chance unless he knows of plaintiff’s peril; it is not sufficient if only he should have known of plaintiff’s peril.” Lindsey v. Southern Pacific Co., supra ( 240 Or at 14 ).

1971See also, Lindsey v. Southern Pacific Co., 240 Or 11, 14 , 399 P2d 152 (1965).' In the pure classic example for the application of the last clear chance doctrine, the plaintiff admits his negligence or is found to be negligent and says that notwithstanding his negligence and because of his discovered peril, the defendant has the last clear chance to avert the accident.

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Marshall v. Olsongreen
or · 1922 · cited in 2 Oregon opinions naming this issue, 1938–1967
2 sentences

1967See, also, holding that facts within the last-clear-chance doctrine must be pleaded as well as proven, Marshall v. Olson, 102 Or 502, 511 , 202 P 736 (1922); Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or 377, 381 , 114 P 936 (1911).

1967See, also, holding that facts within the last-clear-chance doctrine must be pleaded as well as proven, Marshall v. Olson, 102 Or 502, 511 , 202 P 736 (1922); Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or 377, 381 , 114 P 936 (1911).

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

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No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Oregon. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (11)

CaseCitedYears
Emmons v. Southern Pac. Co. green
· 1920
2 sentences

1972At this point a neAv condition supervenes, in which all previous negligence of both parties is laid out of the account, and a new duty, dating only from that moment, arises on the part of the defendant, who is required then, and not until then, under the last clear chance doctrine, to use all of the means he has at hand to avert the injury. * * 97 Or at 285 . ① It would be patently illogical to hold that one element of actual knowledge of peril must be known, the physical presence of the plaintiff, but constructive knowledge would suffice for the other element, knowledge that the plaintiff no

1965Mr. Justice BURNETT, speaking for the court, opens the opinion with this statement, 97 Or 263 , 271: "Apparently there was an attempt in the complaint to state a cause of action for negligence of the defendants, and another count for injury inflicted in violation of what is known as the last clear chance doctrine.

41956–1972
Stewart v. Portland Ry. L. & P. Co. green
or · 1911
2 sentences

1967See, also, holding that facts within the last-clear-chance doctrine must be pleaded as well as proven, Marshall v. Olson, 102 Or 502, 511 , 202 P 736 (1922); Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or 377, 381 , 114 P 936 (1911).

1967See, also, holding that facts within the last-clear-chance doctrine must be pleaded as well as proven, Marshall v. Olson, 102 Or 502, 511 , 202 P 736 (1922); Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or 377, 381 , 114 P 936 (1911).

41914–1967
Falls v. Mortensen green
or · 1956
2 sentences

1965Falls v. Mortensen, 207 Or 130, 141 , 295 P2d 182 ; Morser v. Southern Pacific Co. et al., 110 Or 9 , 222 P 736 ; Emmons v. Southern Pac.

1965Falls v. Mortensen, 207 Or 130, 141 , 295 P2d 182 ; Morser v. Southern Pacific Co. et al., 110 Or 9 , 222 P 736 ; Emmons v. Southern Pac.

11965–1965
Palmer v. MURDOCK green
or · 1963
2 sentences

1965The trial judge apparently disposed of the case upon the basis of a statement in the concurring opinion of LUSK, J., in Palmer v. Murdock, 233 Or 334, 344 , 378 P2d 271 (1963), where it was said, "I have grave doubt whether the last clear chance doctrine can ever be applied to a case involving a collision between two automobiles in an intersection of streets under circumstances similar to those described in the opening statement of counsel for the plaintiff." The concurring opinion then quoted from 61 CJS 123, Motor Vehicles § 493 to the effect that generally the last clear chance doctrine is

1965The trial judge apparently disposed of the case upon the basis of a statement in the concurring opinion of LUSK, J., in Palmer v. Murdock, 233 Or 334, 344 , 378 P2d 271 (1963), where it was said, "I have grave doubt whether the last clear chance doctrine can ever be applied to a case involving a collision between two automobiles in an intersection of streets under circumstances similar to those described in the opening statement of counsel for the plaintiff." The concurring opinion then quoted from 61 CJS 123, Motor Vehicles § 493 to the effect that generally the last clear chance doctrine is

11965–1965
Morser v. Southern Pacific Co. green
or · 1924
2 sentences

1965Falls v. Mortensen, 207 Or 130, 141 , 295 P2d 182 ; Morser v. Southern Pacific Co. et al., 110 Or 9 , 222 P 736 ; Emmons v. Southern Pac.

1965Falls v. Mortensen, 207 Or 130, 141 , 295 P2d 182 ; Morser v. Southern Pacific Co. et al., 110 Or 9 , 222 P 736 ; Emmons v. Southern Pac.

11965–1965
Smith v. Southern Pacific Co. green
or · 1911
2 sentences

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

11956–1956
Deere v. Southern Pacific Co. neutral
scotus · 1942
1 sentence

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

11956–1956
Landis v. Wick green
or · 1936
2 sentences

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

11956–1956
Rew v. Dorn neutral
or · 1938
2 sentences

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

1956Emmons v. Southern Pacific Co., 97 Or 263 , 191 P 333 ; Smith v. Southern Pacific Co., 58 Or 22 , 113 P 41 ; Landis v. Wick, 154 Or 199 , 57 P2d 759 , 59 P2d 403 ; Rew v. Dorn, 160 Or 368 , 85 P2d 1031 ; Deere v. Southern Pacific Co., 123 F2d 438, 86 Led 1217, certiorari denied, 315 US 819 .

11956–1956
Garcés v. Registrar of Property of San Germán green
prsupreme · 1944
1 sentence

1914In order to invoke the last clear chance doctrine, the plaintiff must plead and prove that defendant, after perceiving the danger and in time to have avoided it, negligently failed to do so: Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or. 377 ( 114 Pac. 936 ); Cederson v. Navigation Co., 38 Or. 359 ( 62 Pac. 637 , 63 Pac. 763 ).

11914–1914
Cederson v. Oregon Navigation Co. green
· 1900
1 sentence

1914In order to invoke the last clear chance doctrine, the plaintiff must plead and prove that defendant, after perceiving the danger and in time to have avoided it, negligently failed to do so: Stewart v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co., 58 Or. 377 ( 114 Pac. 936 ); Cederson v. Navigation Co., 38 Or. 359 ( 62 Pac. 637 , 63 Pac. 763 ).

11914–1914

Where else courts name it

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