Barrett v. Lake Ontario Beach Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Lake Ontario Beach Improvement Company, from an Order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 18th day of June, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion, made upon the minutes,, to set aside a verdict for $2,000 previously rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate who was killed by falling from the platform of a toboggan slide, and which is claimed to have been negligently constructed, in that it did not have a sufficient railing or guard around it.
The premises where the accident occurred consisted of a portion of the beach at Charlotte, in Monroe county, a bath house and appurtenances and the toboggan slide in question. The accident occurred during the afternoon of August 26, 1900. The premises, including the structure in question, were owned by the…
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