Cates v. Cincinnati Exhibition Co.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injury alleged to have been negligently inflicted.

There was evidence tending to show that the City of Durham owned a baseball field known as El Toro Park, and that it leased said park to the Cincinnati Exhibition Company for the purpose of having games of baseball played therein between the Durham Baseball Club, owned by the Exhibition Company, and other clubs of the Piedmont League, during the season of 1936; that on the night of September 6, the Durham Baseball Club was playing a game of baseball with another baseball club of the Piedmont…