State ex rel. Pettis County v. Union Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the New Hampshire Legislature enacted the comparative negligence statute to “allocate more equitably the responsibility for injuries due to negligent conduct on the part of parties on both sides of a lawsuit”
• explaining that the New Hampshire Legislature enacted the comparative negligence statute 107 to “allocate more equitably the responsibility for injuries due to negligent conduct on the part of parties on both sides of a lawsuit”
• under § 507:7-a, recovery should be “reduced in the ratio that the negligence of the plaintiff contributed to the injury”
• views of the draftsman are immaterial upon meaning of legislation, since there is no necessary correlation between his views and the intent of the legislators

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).