Burrows v. Hawaiian Trust Company

How courts have described this case

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

• “Consent is a defense to assault and battery cases as well as to others, unless the consent is against the policy of the law”
• “Plaintiff did not assume the risk of injury which she reasonably hazarded in the performance of her duty as a nurse, and which ensued despite her fulfillment of her obligation of due care.”
• nurse tending insane patient could assume the risk that patient might strike her
• applying assumption of risk doctrine to attendant-mental patient action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).