Weitzen v. Camp Mooween, Inc.

During the season of 1930 plaintiff, then aged fifteen, was in attendance at defendant’s summer camp in Yantic, Conn. He had attended the same institution for years. His father paid $250 annually for all expenses.

On August third the young man was playing in a baseball game between two nines made up of others like himself, on a field shown by a picture in evidence. The photograph exhibits a generally level surface with a thin growth of grass and weeds, worn to bare earth in spots by base lines and other marks of use. No noticeable obstructions like rocks or stumps appear within the playing…