Royston v. City of Charlotte

The city of Charlotte, in its public park, among playground equipment for children, provided a swing, constructed with timber posts set in concrete, notched at the tops to hold an iron crossbar about four inches in diameter and 16 feet in length, to which were attached, by chains, four swings. "While plaintiff’s decedent, a boy 11 years and 9 months of age, was using one of the swings a post broke off, the iron crossbar fell and fractured the boy’s skull and he died two days later. This case was brought to recover damages and defendant prosecutes review by appeal from a judgment in favor of…