Geis v. Hodgman

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• in personal injury action by servant against master not covered by compensation acts or statutes imposing a duty on the employer for benefit of the employee, the common law still governs, and the defense of assumption of risk is available to the employer
• applying assumption of risk in master/servant context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).