Kittle v. State

Claimant’s intestate, a girl sixteen years of age, came to her death on September 27, 1930, by falling from a cliff in Thacher State Park. The locality of her fall includes the topographical phenomena described by the park authorities as “ The Crevice ” and the “ Bear Path.” Originally the crevice was a natural fissure between two ledges of rock extending downward from the surface at a ninety degree angle about thirty-five feet to the bear path, a narrow walk along the face of the cliff fifty feet above its base. The natural fissure once known as “ Fat Man’s Misery ” has been widened by…