Schlessman v. Henson

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting contention that a similar release was tantamount to a contract of adhesion and thus unenforceable
• enforcing release in suit by amateur race car driver who sued speedway operator alleging injuries in a car crash precipitated by collapse of banked race track
• the parties contemplated that the exculpatory agreement covered the broad range of accidents which occur in auto racing
• the parties contemplated that the exculpatory agreement covered the broad range of accidents which occur in auto racing
• “The parties may not have contemplated the precise occurrence which resulted in plaintiffs accident, but this does not render the exculpatory clause inoperable.”
• “In adopting the broad language employed in the agreement, it seems reasonable to conclude that the parties contemplated the similarly broad range of accidents which occur in auto racing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).