Warner v. City of Bay St. Louis

MEMORANDUM OPINION

NIXON, District Judge.

This diversity action was filed against the City of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, a municipal corporation, seeking damages for serious and permanent personal injuries sustained by the then sixteen (16) year old plaintiff as a result of his having dived off a pier or wharf alleged to have been owned and maintained by the defendant for public recreational purposes.

The plaintiff contends that on July 4, 1969, he was an invitee on the Municipal pier, never having been in that locality prior to that date; that the city maintained the pier for the benefit of…