Court Opinion

ID: 9532762
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:24:35.81292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:50.212643
License: Public Domain

Ott, J.
(concurring in the result) — I concur in the result. Under the facts of this case, a new trial should be granted, and, upon the retrial, the jury should be instructed that Maria Siragusa assumed the risk of the danger ordinarily incident to the work in which she was engaged, except that resulting from the negligence, if any, of the employer. Hines v. Continental Baking Co., 334 S. W. (2d) 140 (Mo. 1960).
Our adoption of the Missouri rule as stated in Hines v. Continental Baking Co., supra, constitutes a modification of the doctrine of assumption of risk in this state. Therefore, the opinion should designate precisely which of the approximately 160 decided cases involving assumption of risk still remain the law of this state, and which are expressly overruled. To hold that we are overruling “The prior decisions of this court, in so far as they are inconsistent with the reasoning and rule we now express,” without citing them, will create utter chaos for the bench and bar in their attempt to determine the present status of the law.