FACTS
-Personal Injury action involving blind man who walked off elevated walkway.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY
-P found contributory negligent
ISSUE
-Is a blind man contributory negligent in injuries sustained in an accident in which he fell off a walkway?
HOLDING
-He was contributory negligent due to not using a seeing eye dog or a cane.
RULES
-A blind man must exercise due care in using public walkways commensurate with the known or reasonably foreseeable dangers.
-Due care is such care as an ordinary prudent person with the same disability would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.
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