Court Opinion

ID: 9671404
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:35:56.826983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:09.851349
License: Public Domain

AVERY, (P.J.,W.S.),
(concurring in result).
To me assumption of risk can have no application except through a contractual relationship of some character. The plaintiff contracted with the patient, and not the defendants, to take care of him under conditions which she must have realized she was assuming such *355risk as the care of a patient 'would require. She permitted the patient to go to the bathroom. He left the bathroom, went into the hall apparently without her-knowledge. He fell upon her as she undertook to get him back in the bed, and she was injured in that fall. Thus the assumption of the risk was through the contract with the patient who paid her for her services.
I can not see how that, as long as we have our contributory negligence law in effect as we now charge the juries we can substitute “assumption of risk” for “contributory negligence”. Assumption of risk, as I view it, chn grow out of nothing other than a contractual relationship of some character. It could be a contract that did not require monetary consideration, but which had other considerations of a valuable mutual nature.
I think my colleague has written a very fine opinion, but I felt I must express myself as related to my statement that I “concur in result.”