Opinion ID: 1192172
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Heading: Third Was plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence?

Text: This question is answered in the negative. In Matt Skorey Packard Co. v. Canino, 142 Colo. ___, 350 P.2d 1069, 1071, it is stated: The legal rule of conduct requires that the plaintiff, as well as the defendant, shall act as an ordinarily prudent person would do under like circumstances. In either case the act must be the proximate cause, or one of the proximate causes of the injury, to charge the defendant with negligence or the plaintiff with contributory negligence. Here there was no showing that any act or conduct on the part of Karen was such as would warrant a finding of fault for the resulting injury. We find no basis for the assertion that Karen, an 11 year old girl, used other than that degree of care which ordinarily prudent children of similar age and like intelligence would be expected to use under like circumstances. Lakeside Park Company v. Wein, supra. Counsel also cite Gambardello v. H. J. Seiler Co., 335 Mass. 49, 138 N.E.2d 603. There the evidence revealed that plaintiff, without first looking, dived from a springboard and landed on a raft seven feet long and four feet wide. Clearly that case is not in point with the factual situation here.