Menish v. Polinger Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in order for the court to find contributory negligence as a matter of law “the act (or omission) so relied on must be distinct, prominent and decisive, and one about which reasonable minds would not differ in declaring it to be negligence”
• standard for assessing plaintiffs conduct is that of a reasonable person, “not that of a very cautious person”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).