Beardslee v. Blomberg
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term,, entered August 14, 1978 in Chemung County, which denied a motion to dismiss the complaint. On July 22, 1977, plaintiff, while a spectator at defendant Chemung Speedrome, an auto race track owned and operated by defendant Robert Blomberg, responded to a call for participants from the grandstand and volunteered to take part in a "Powder Puff Derby”, a stock car race for women. She sustained injuries when her vehicle struck a retaining wall of the race track allegedly as a result of defendant’s negligence in providing her with an…
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