Scales v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding judgment as a matter of law is unavailable where potentially liable party’s alleged negligence not considered by jury
• a landowner may be liable for injuries suffered by a worker encountering an obviously dangerous condition during periods of foreseeable distraction
• “In the instant case, we question what choice appellee had other than quitting his job.”
• “[Ujnder the law of comparative negligence, allocation of each party’s proportionate negligence must be a question for the trier of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).