Carter v. Lovelace

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court erred in instructing the jury on assumption of the risk when the plaintiff did not assume the specific risk that caused his injuries
• “[A]ssumption of risk requires knowledge of the danger and consent to it. Contributory negligence does not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).