Hartman v. Tennessee State Fair Ass'n
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Davidson County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court— Thos. E. Matthews, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The suit was instituted by Hattie Hartman against the Tennessee State Fair Association, C. T. Kennedy, and others, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her in the collapse, because of negligence, of an amusement contrivance, known as the “Ocean Wave,” operated on the grounds of the association during the State fair in October, 1913.
The action, so far as it affected the Tennessee State Fair Association, was dismissed; but the case went to trial to test the liability of Kennedy. A motion of the latter for a peremptory instruction that there was no liability on his part was…
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