First Pacific Management Corp. v. O'Brien

How courts have described this case

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

• “One cannot admit knowledge of the presence of a [minefield] but claim ignorance because he was not aware that a mine was placed at the point he decided to enter it.”
• “One cannot admit knowledge of the presence of a mine field but claim ignorance because he was not aware that a mine was placed at the point he decided to enter it.”
• \One cannot admit knowledge of the presence of a mine field but claim ignorance because he was not aware that a mine was placed at the point he decided to enter it.\
• “One cannot admit knowledge of the presence of a mine field but claim ignorance because he was not aware that a mine was placed at the point he decided to enter it.”
• plaintiff who threw himself into a creek had assumed the risk of injury; “[a] person cannot undertake to do what is obviously a dangerous thing and at the same time avoid the responsibility for the self-assumed risk”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).