Read BENNETT v. HIDDEN VALLEY GOLF & SKI, INC., 02-1311

Under Missouri law, a voluntary skier assumes the risks inherent in or incidental to skiing, regardless of subjective knowledge of those risks. Instructions as to the duty of care a proprietor of a place of public amusement owes a customer were proper. Reference to plaintiff's illegal drug use was relevant to her injuries.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2003
• Published 01/31/2003

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY and MELLOY, Circuit Judges, and FRANK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark T. McCloskey, argued, Clayton, Missouri, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas J. Magee, argued, St. Louis, Missouri (Robyn Greifzu Fox and Catherine Vale Jochens, on the brief), for appellee.