Feit v. State

On June 24, 1956, Sheila Rose Feit, aged nine, accompanied her parents on a picnic to Hempstead Lake State Park, Nassau County, New York. Some time after noon of that day, Sheila, together with a girl friend, Sherry, bought tickets for the motor-driven merry-go-round operated by and under the control of employees of the Hempstead Lake State Park. An accident occurred when Sheila left the merry-go-round. As a result, her left wrist had two bone fractures and a separation of the epiphyses at the lower end of the left radius with dorsal displacement.

There are two stories as to how the accident…