Summary
holding that it was not error for trial court to give jury technically correct instruction on vicarious liability—one that was unlikely to have created an erroneous perception of the law—even though instruction was not a "model of clarity" and was a simple "cut-and-paste melding" of language pulled from multiple decisions; noting that instruction "exemplifie[d] the caveat that ‘[a]n instruction that accurately quotes or faithfully paraphrases an appellate decision is not necessarily beyond reproach.’ Rogers v. Meridian Park Hospital , 307 Or. 612, 616, 7 P.2d 929" (first and third brackets added).
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May 3, 2000