Reynolds v. Phare

This is an action for damages for personal injury allegedly suffered by plaintiff as the result of a ride on an amusement device known as “Shoot the Chute,” owned and operated by defendants at Playland in Seattle.

The jury returned a verdict for defendants, and plaintiff appeals from the judgment.

The “Shoot the Chute” is a slide, approximately sixty-five feet high. A boat, in which passengers ride, is pulled up one side of a ramp by a chain, and, after going around a curve at the top of the ramp, slides down a two-hundred-thirty-five-foot chute. It leaves the chute about six inches above the…