Steichen v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Collegiate Manufacturing Co. v. McDowell's Agency, Inc. · Bradt v. Grell Construction, Inc. · Birmingham Electric Co. v. Jones · Railway Express Co. v. Real · Wroblewski v. Linn-Jones FS Services, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“This, on the well-recognized principle that if a safe and a dangerous way are equally, open, it is the duty of the party to select the safe rather than the dangerous one. This principle has no application, if both places are safe, unless and until rendered unsafe by a breach of duty on the part of him who relies on such principle. Not until it becomes apparent that he is being put in a place of peril by the wrongful act of the other does the duty arise to adopt means of escape. Until then, he may rely on the performance of duty by the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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