Tuerck v. State

Claimant’s intestate, her son, aged a little less than six years, while playing with a young companion at Ore Pit Pond in Taconic State Park, fell into the water and was drowned.

This claim was filed to recover from the State the damages caused by the death of tho infant. In an accompanying decision, the facts are stated in detail and need not be repeated here.

The pond was divided into one part for swimming consisting of about two hundred feet in the southerly portion and in the remainder, marked off by a boom line made of logs, swimming was not allowed. A separate small pool not over two feet…