California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Perry v. First Corp., 167 Cal.App.2d 359, 334 P.2d 299 (Cal. App. 1959):
The test to be applied in such a case as this we find well expressed in Anthony v. Hobbie, 25 Cal.2d 814, 818, 155 P.2d 826, 829: '* * * contributory negligence is not established as a matter of law unless the only reasonable hypothesis is that such negligence exists; that reasonable or sensible men could have drawn that conclusion and none other; that where there are different inferences that may be drawn, one for and one against, the one against will be followed; and that before it can be held as a metter of law that contributory negligence exists, the evidence must point unerringly to that conclusion. [Citations.]'
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