Nason v. Boston Garden Arena Corp.

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff, a minor thirteen years of age at the time of the accident, went on a Sunday afternoon in November, 1947, with a group of companions to a private indoor skating rink, the ice surface of which was formed by flooding the concrete floor and freezing the water. The plaintiff began skating about two o’clock. The rink was two hundred fifty feet long and eighty to one hundred feet wide, and at times during the afternoon there were between seven and eight hundred skaters. Sometime after three thirty o’clock the ice surface became deteriorated. It had developed…