Wallace v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that plaintiff's assumption of risk is not voluntary if defendant's wrongful conduct leaves no rea- sonable alternative course of conduct to avoid harm
• “In South Carolina, contributory negligence is an affirmative defense to an action for negligence [but not strict liability or breach of warranty].”
• question of contributory negligence is ordinarily a question of fact for the jury; if the evidence is conflicting or susceptible to different reasonable inferences, the issue is for the jury to determine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).