Linxwiler v. El Dorado Sports Center, Inc.

343 S.W.2d 411 (1961)

W. H. LINXWILER, Jr., Individually and as Next Friend of W. H. Linxwiler, III, Appellant,

v.

EL DORADO SPORTS CENTER, INC., Appellee.

No. 5-2238.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 27, 1961.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1961.

Bernard Whetstone, El Dorado, for appellant.

Mahony & Yocum, El Dorado, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

At about five a.m. on September 26, 1958, Billy Linxwiler, a boy of eighteen, was accidentally shot in the throat by an employee of the El Dorado Sports Center, an all-night bowling alley. Billy's father, the appellant, brought this action for his…