Davis v. Shelton

Appeal from orders of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Broome County on Hovember 22, 1968 and Hovember 25, 1968, which granted respondents’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to them, and from judgments entered thereon. Appellant, then 14 years of age, was seriously injured on October 16, 1959 when a limb of a tree which he was climbing, broke under his weight, hurling him to the ground. He was a member of Boy '.Scout Troop 39 which was at the time on an all-night camping trip on land owned by the defendants Lawrence. The troop was sponsored by the defendant…