Garrett v. Nissen Corporation

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• stating that the personal right or privilege of 17 venue may be waived by the accused
• affirming summary judgment in favor of trampoline manufacturer where plaintiff was a gymnast and had performed the trampoline maneuver during which he was injured approximately twenty times previously
• analyzing need to warn on basis of actual knowledge of trampoline user, and finding no need to warn of the particular danger that caused the injury where jumper had extensive trampoline experience, and as a result of experience actually knew the danger of performing that specific maneuver
• “There is no duty to warn of dangers actually known to the user of a product[.]”
• if duty to warn is satisfied, then there is no defect in product
• reasons for grant of summary judgment need not be stated in greater detail than that there were no material issues of fact to be tried and that movant was entitled to judgment as a matter of law

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