Roberts v. King

How courts have described this case

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

• passenger involved in a car race on public road assumes the risk of wilful and wanton misconduct by the participating drivers
• “[a]ssumption of risk in its simplest and primary sense means that the plaintiff has given his express consent to relieve the defendant of an obligation of conduct toward him and to take his chance of injury from a known risk”
• minor involved in drag racing assumed risk of injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).