Ratcliff v. San Diego Baseball Club

This is an action for damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff as a result of being hit with a baseball bat which had slipped from the hands of a player.

The plaintiff purchased a ticket for a seat in the grandstand of the playing field operated by the San Diego Baseball Club for a game between that club and the Sacramento Club. A regular aisle or passageway ran along the front of this grandstand,- being parallel to the line between home plate and first base, and some forty or forty-five feet distant from that line. The central part of the grandstand, being that portion which was back of…