Kentucky Supreme Court· 7/5/1984

Hilen v. Hays

Citations

673 S.W.2d 713
1984 Ky. LEXIS 261

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emphasizing that even “the claimant who is 95% negligent recovers from the defendant . . . for that small portion of the injury, 5%, which is fairly attributable to the defendant’s fault”
supplanting the doctrine of contributory negligence was supplanted with comparative fault
“[T]he rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall not apply to the statutes of this state.”
“The trier of fact must” apportion fault in a comparative negligence case. (emphasis added)

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Judges: Stephens, Aker, Gant, Leibson, Wintersheimer, Stephenson, Vance

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