Hook v. Rothstein

How courts have described this case

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• holding summary judgment inappropriate when no genuine issue of fact is involved and inquiry into the facts is required to clarify the application of the law
• Summary judgment should not be granted when inquiry into the facts is desirable to clarify the application of the law.
• “[S]ummary judgment is appropriate only where it is perfectly clear that no genuine issue of fact is involved and inquiry into the facts is not desirable to clarify the application of the law.”
• “This court has often noted that summary judgment is appropriate only where it is perfectly clear that no genuine issue of fact is involved and inquiry into the facts is not desirable to clarify the application of the law.”

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