Clementine Murray and Carmen R. Wright, Guardian and Ad Litem for Adrian Lavonne Wright, Minor v. Ramada Inn, Inc.

ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Ramada Inn, Inc., Interstate Motor Lodges of Shreveport, Inc., Barker Development and Management, Inc., and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company appeal from the judgment of the district court awarding $250,000 to the wife and child of Gregory Murray, who died of injuries received as a result of diving into a swimming pool at a Ramada Inn in Shreveport, Louisiana. As part of its defense, the defendants claimed that Murray could not recover because he knowingly dived into the shallow end of the pool in a manner he knew to be unsafe. Consequently, the…