Johnson v. Hot Springs Land & Imp. Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. In Bane. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is an action by Rasmus Johnson, administrator of the estate of Arthur Johnson, deceased against the Hot Springs Land & Improvement Company, a private corporation, for causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant maintains a natatorium which is open to the public for swimming, diving and bathing for hire.
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From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. In Bane. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is an action by Rasmus Johnson, administrator of the estate of Arthur Johnson, deceased against the Hot Springs Land & Improvement Company, a private corporation, for causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant maintains a natatorium which is open to the public for swimming, diving and bathing for hire. Arthur Johnson dived off a spring-board into the swimming-pool, struck his head on the bottom, was seriously injured, and thereafter died from the effects of the injury so received. Charging that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harris
The testimony will be recounted before attempting to determine the soundness of the ruling made by the trial court. The deceased was aged about 19 years *336and 3 months on June 6, 1913, when injured. He had worked about 5 years in box factories, was of ordinary intelligence, could read English, was practically a grown man, was a good swimmer and diver, and had been in the plunge two and perhaps more times previous to the accident. Having g’one to the natatorium, accompanied by three friends, Walter Murphy, Ray Peck and Louin Halvorsen, for the purpose of using the tank, Johnson and his…
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