McQuiggan v. Boy Scouts of America

How courts have described this case

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

• \The gist of the action [of battery] is not hostile intent but the absence of consent to the contact on plaintiff's part.\
• “Assumption of the risk negates the issue of a defendant’s negligence by virtue of a plaintiffs previous abandonment of his or her right to maintain an action if an accident occurs”
• “Even though Nicholas was only twelve years of age at the time of the incident, there is no doubt that a child of that age can assume the risk of his or her actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).