Hammel v. Madison Square Garden Corp.

Judgment unanimously reversed upon the law, with thirty dollars costs to appellants, and complaint dismissed, with appropriate costs in the court below.

Plaintiff, a spectator at a hockey match, was injured by being struck by the puck. Plaintiff was seated in the front row at the side of the rink. The rink was equipped, as practically all such rinks are, with nets at each end behind the goal, but no nets on the sides. The proof showed that occasionally the puck would come over the wooden railing that was about three and one-half feet high, into the seats where the spectators sat.

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