Williams v. City of Longmont

In this controversy we are concerned with the liability of a municipality to plaintiff who was injured by third persons engaged in playing “crack-the-whip” on a skating pond located in a public park. The complaint, inter alia, alleges:

“That on or about the evening of December 30, 1938, during the Christmas and New Year holiday season then in celebration, the public was in heavy attendance at said Sunset Lake; and from about eight o’clock until after nine the crowd was increasing thereat in size and enthusiasm and was full of fun and revelry, and composed principally of children, adolescents…