Ardinger v. Hummell

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a plaintiff is not precluded from recovering civil damages arising out of an accident simply because the plaintiff was operating their vehicle without a license, at least “absent a causal connection between the lack of a license and the resulting injuries”
• finding the statutory offense of driving a car without the owner’s permission “does not represent the level of serious criminal conduct generally necessary to bar recovery” and the plaintiff’s harm was not the type of risk the statute was designed to prevent
• reversible error results from failure to give a lesser-included offense instruction where the evidence presented would support conviction of lesser offense
• “Children who physically control vehicles must, for public safety reasons, be held to an adult standard of care.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).