Oles v. Columbia County Agricultural Society

The defendant, a membership corporation, in September, 1931, conducted a county agricultural fair upon its fair grounds at Chatham, Columbia county. Among the concessionaires permitted upon its grounds was a Mrs. Fuller who, in consideration of forty dollars paid to defendant, was permitted to rope off an area for a pony track. Three ponies were kept in this area or paddock. They were attended by a man and two boys. Children in attendance at the fair who paid the concessionnaire for the privilege, were allowed to ride upon the ponies. The plaintiff, a child under four years of age, with its…