Hyde v. City of Utica

On April 13, 1938, the infant plaintiff, then seven years of age, in company with two boys, visited the zoo kept and maintained by the defendant in one of its city parks. The boys visited a cage containing a bear and then they visited another cage containing a bear. There was no fence, guard, railing or other contrivance around the cage which housed that bear and there was no sign or warning erected notifying visitors that the bear was vicious or that it was dangerous to approach the cage or forbidding visitors to feed the bear. When the plaintiff and his companions reached the cage of the…