Adams v. American Enka Corp.

Is a manufacturing corporation which constructs and maintains a lake for manufacturing purposes, and which permits and allows employees and the public generally to swim therein, without ' charge, compensation or control, liable in damages for the drowning of a visitor while swimming in the lake?

The plaintiff insists that he is entitled to recover upon the theory that his intestate was invited to swim in the lake by virtue of the fact that a diving board had been prepared for the use of the public and a beach provided for swimmers. Consequently it is argued that the defendant under the…