Lyshak v. City of Detroit

Here we consider the case of a small hoy whose eye was put out when he was struck by a golf ball as he played, with other boys, on the Bedford golf course. He was 7 years old at the time, in the second grade at school. He, by his father, is the plaintiff in one case, and his father is plaintiff in the other. (The cases were consolidated for trial.) We will, for purposes of simplicity, use the term plaintiff in the singular in most places in the opinion. The city of Detroit was one of the defendants and is the sole appellee.

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