Hamrock v. Consolidated Rail Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an instruction was required because plaintiff put on evidence of performing a \dangerous job under orders and in the customary manner without safe alternatives\
• stating that “a court’s charge ... will be deemed proper only where it adequately and correctly covers the substance of the requested instructions and is fair to both parties”
• stating that \a court's charge ... will be deemed proper only where it adequately and correctly covers the substance of the requested instructions and is fair to both parties\
• concluding instruction is properly given when issue of assumption of risk is expressly or implicitly before jury, even though not explicitly raised at trial
• concluding instruction is properly given when issue of assumption of risk is expressly or implicitly before jury, even though not explicitly raised at trial
• use of assumption of risk instruction in a FELA case condemned by various courts where assumption of risk was not an issue and jury was properly instructed on contributory negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).