Bolduc v. Crain

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that participating in a horse pulling contest “has some dangers connected with it” and therefore defendant not liable for “normal dangers incident [to participating] in such a contest”
• defense of assumption of risk not available in common law negligence action; duty analysis performed
• “* * * [I]t was long ago settled that the defense of assumption of risk is not available in this state to a defendant in a common-law tort action such as this.”
• \* * * [I]t was long ago settled that the defense of assumption of risk is not available in this state to a defendant in a common-law tort action such as this.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).