Court Opinion

ID: 9550639
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:39:31.451433+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:04.167613
License: Public Domain

Mallery, J.
(dissenting) — A detour should not be governed by rules applicable to highways. Practical considerations often require the use of a detour in a condition unsuitable for a permanent highway. People using a detour have no right to expect its condition to conform to highway standards. The user of a detour assumes the risk incident to his mode of operating his vehicle and is aggrieved only if the condition of the detour is so inherently dangerous that it cannot be safely traversed by a degree of care commensurate with observable conditions.
No inherent danger existed in this case as a matter of law. The court should have dismissed the action.
I dissent.