Chardon v. Alameda Park Co.

The defendant owns and operates for profit a public pleasure resort in Alameda known as Neptune Beach, wherein various forms of entertainment are provided, among them being several different kinds of athletic and amusement devices including swings, horizontal bars, ladders, overhead rings and slides or chutes, as they are sometimes called, all located on a square of ground which has been covered with sand. The plaintiff, while visiting the resort with his wife and a party of children, descended one of the slides, and in landing on the ground below sustained a fractured spine and serious…