City of Anadarko v. Swain Et Ux.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Caddo County; J. T. Johnson, Jtidge. Action by John M. Swain and Addie L. Swain, his wife, against the city of Anadarko. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
RITTEN HOUSE, C.
The only question necessary for a determination of this case is the duty a municipality owes to the public in maintaining its public parks and waterworks system. The maintenance of a public park in a populous city is not only an implied but an express invitation to the public to resold to it for amusement alid recreation, and, where children of tender years and immature minds are invited to play and amuse themselves, the parents have a right to rely on the city to exercise reasonable or ordinary care to keep the park and waterworks system safe for the benefit of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Bennett v. Railroad Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Oliver v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- City of Shawnee v. CheekSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
- Atlanta Cotton-Seed Oil Mills v. CoffeySupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
- Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. CogswellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Barker v. City of Santa FeNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1943
- Emmons v. City of VirginiaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
- City of Sapulpa v. YoungSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1931
- City of Kokomo v. LoyIndiana Supreme Court · 1916
- Scroggins v. City of HarlingenTexas Supreme Court · 1938
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