Broom Ex Rel. Broom v. Southeastern Highway Contracting Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that unlike contributory negligence, which is based on carelessness and inadvertence, assumption of risk requires deliberate and voluntary choice to assume a known risk
• $500,000 verdict with actual damages of $7,500

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).