Pletchas v. Von Poppenheim

How courts have described this case

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• assumption of risk instruction proper when plaintiff became a passenger in automobile driven by defendant whom plaintiff knew had been drinking
• cannot admit testimony that jurors doubled damage award because they believed attorney received 50% fee
• cannot admit testimony that jurors doubled damage award because they believed attorney received 50% fee
• when there was disputed evidence of level of driver's intoxication, whether injured passenger knew driver was impaired went to jury to determine comparative negligence and assumption of risk
• Parties engaged in same occupation are presumed to have knowledge of business usage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).