Parmentier v. McGinnis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by -the plaintiff as administrator to recover damages for the alleged death of his son, a boy about seventeen years and eight months old.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by -the plaintiff as administrator to recover damages for the alleged death of his son, a boy about seventeen years and eight months old. The death occurred while the boy was engaged in a boxing exhibition in the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on December 26, 1910, the defendants being the other participant in the exhibition, Lom; the promoter, McGinnis; the referee who officiated, Tonne; and two spectators, Allen and Abrams, the latter of whom was at the time mayor of the city…
1Opinion of the Court
KeRWIít, J.
The contention of appellant is that the exhibition in question was a fight within the provisions of sec. 4520, Stats., which provides in effect that any person who shall by previous arrangement or appointment engage in a fight with another person for the possession of any prize, belt, or other evidence of championship, or for any other cause, shall be punished, etc.; and if not a fight within the meaning of this statute, it was a fight by mutual consent, which would make each participant liable to the other for actual damages received in the absence of the statute. But this…
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