Richmond v. Federal Land Bank

How courts have described this case

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• the reason for casting aside contributory negligence applies equally to all safety statutes that limit violations of the statute to wilful acts
• the reason for casting aside contributory negligence applies equally to all safety statutes that limit violations of the statute to wilful acts
• “The object to be attained by this [safety] statute was to prevent injuries to persons employed . . . , so that negligence on their part in the manner of doing their work might not prove fatal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).