Stephens v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that assumption of risk language is inappropriate in jury instructions under a comparative fault scheme
• the court refused to apply the Liability Reform Act, which eliminated joint and several liability, to injuries occurring before its effective date
• “[A]ssumption of risk in its secondary sense ... is to be treated as contributory negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).