Sebeck v. Plattdeutsche Volkfest Verein
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Hudson Circuit Court. Tried at the Hudson Circuit, April Term, 1899, before Mr. Justice Lippincott and a jury, and a judgment of nonsuit ordered.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gummere, J.
On August 21st, 1898, the defendants held a festival at its Schuetzen Park, in Hudson county, to which the attendance of the public was invited, an admission fee of twenty-five cents being charged to each person who attended. Among other attractions, an exhibition of fireworks was given in the evening by one Gerhardt, a manufacturer of fireworks, under a contract with the defendant by which the providing of the fireworks and the conducting of the exhibition was left entirely in his hands. The plaintiff, who was present as a spectator, having…
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