Nixon v. Rowland

How courts have described this case

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

• in property damage claim, rescue doctrine inapplicable to negate assumption of risk because of no reasonable appearance to rescuer that some person actually was in imminent and serious peril of injury or death
• a general appearance in a case confers jurisdiction of the person on the court
• a general appearance in a case confers jurisdiction of the person on the court
• “[A] general appearance in a case is a waiver of process, equivalent to personal service of process, and confers jurisdiction of the person on the court; but to have this effect the appearance must have been authorized”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).