Shuman v. Mashburn

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a person who is injured by voluntarily assuming a position of “imminent” danger when there is an accessible place of safety cannot recover against a negligent party
• no liability where plaintiff knew he was diving from roof into a shallow pool
• “A person who voluntarily assumes a position of imminent danger when there is at hand and accessible to him a place of safety, and by reason of having assumed such dangerous position he is injured, cannot recover against another who is also negligent.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).