Court Opinion

ID: 9665621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:53:15.421822+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:01:07.552242
License: Public Domain

Otis, Justice
(dissenting).
I cannot agree that a plaintiff may be found free from contributory negligence if after completing his mission he is injured by falling into an open pit while walking blindly through a dark and unfamiliar basement without using a flashlight which is then available to him. To so hold overrules sub silentio our decisions in Murray v. Albert Lea Home Investment Co. 202 Minn. 62, 277 N. W. 424; Plahn v. Masonic Hall Bldg. Assn. 206 Minn. 232, 288 N. W. 575; Sartori v. Capitol City Lodge No. 48, 212 Minn. 538, 4 N. W. (2d) 339; and more particularly Huyink v. Hart Publications, Inc. 212 Minn. 87, 2 N. W. (2d) 552, which, as I see it, is indistinguishable on the facts.
Knutson, Chief Justice (dissenting).
I concur in the dissent of Mr. Justice Otis.