LeCato v. Eastern Shore of Virginia Agricultural Ass'n

The defendant, Agricultural Association, for many years conducted annually an agricultural fair on its grounds near the village of Keller, in the county of Accomac. As part of its equipment it maintained upon its grounds a certain octagon shaped speaker’s stand or seating arrangement with two rows of seats, one above the other around a pine tree. The ends of the boards forming these lower steps or seats were nailed to strips, one inch thick and three inches wide, extending up to and against the pine tree as its support at that end. These strips or supports were about eighteen inches from the…