City of Terre Haute v. Webster

Curtis, J. —

This was an action by Jack M. Webster, a minor, by his next friend, Wallace Webster, against the appellant for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on May 18, 1939, by said minor in Sheridan Park, a public park in the City of Terre Haute, Indiana, at about 7:15 to 7:30 o’clock in the evening of said day. It was alleged generally that the minor stepped and fell into a hole just west of a certain stone drinking fountain in said park which said hole had a one inch pipe coming up to about ground level, the accident occurring as the said minor approached said drinking…