Moore v. City of Ardmore

Mrs. H. A. Moore, widow of H. A. Moore, deceased, brought an action in the district court of Carter county, Okla., against city of Ardmore, a municipal corporation, to recover damages for the death of her husband occasioned, as she alleges, by drowning in a lake owned by the city as the result of an unsuitable and unsafe boat rented by the city to the deceased. The trial judgé sustained a demurrer to the plaintiff’s evidence, and she appeals.

Moore and Wright paid the city a fee to fish in the lake, and hired a boat, which will be described later, to use for fishing in the lake. They fished…