Byrnes v. City of Jackson

Ethridge J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant sued the city of Jackson for an injury inflicted by a bear kept by the city in its zoo in Livingston Park. She alleged that, by virtue of the general invitation extended to the public to enter into and enjoy the benefits and pleasures of the park, plaintiff entered Livingston Park on a certain morning, and that on said morning the city had negligently taken a bear out of its cage and had chained it to a stake or tree in the park some distance from the bear’s cage by a chain from six to ten feet in length, which chain was fastened to…