Watzig v. Tobin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• criminal negligence required to prove violation of ORS 607.510, a related criminal statute
• “In essence, the rule that ‘the thing speaks for itself,’ res ipsa loquitur, is a rule of circumstan- tial evidence that allows an inference of negligence to be drawn if the accident is of a kind which ordinarily would not have occurred in the absence of the defen- dant’s negligence[.]”
• “In essence, the rule that ‘the thing speaks for itself,’ res ipsa loquitur, is a rule of circumstan- tial evidence that allows an inference of negligence to be drawn if the accident is of a kind which ordinarily would not have occurred in the absence of the defen- dant’s negligence[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).