Berry v. Friday

How courts have described this case

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• stating that although case did not strongly favor the inference that the patient was contributorily negligent because he was overweight and smoked, even a slim possibility of contributory negligence was enough to present the issue to the jury
• a trial judge is charged with the responsibility of determining all pertinent questions of law
• jury instruction on contributory negligence in medical malpractice action appropriate where evidence established that patient, as an overweight smoker and drinker, could have caused his heart attack
• jury instruction on contributory negligence in medical malpractice action appropriate where evidence established that patient, as an overweight smoker and drinker, could have caused his heart attack

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