Westover v. East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding trial court properly refused to find that plaintiff’s contributory negligence was more than slight as a matter of law when the defendant failed to follow its own safety procedures and failed to provide supervision and warnings to the plaintiff
• “In the absence of a factual dispute, where the evidence warrants, the circuit court and this court can find assumption of the risk as a matter of law.”
• “It is only when the facts show beyond any dispute that plaintiff has committed negligence more than ‘slight,’ that it is appropriate for the circuit court and this court to hold, as a matter of law, for a negligent defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).