Supreme Court of New Jersey

Lillian McGrath, as Administratrix Ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Charles E. McGrath, Deceased

December 16, 196341 N.J. 272

Summary

The New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the Appellate Division, holding that Glenwal Co. owed a duty of care to the decedent and breached it, and that the doctrine of assumption of risk is not a separate issue but merely another expression of negligence or contributory negligence.