Bauer v. Saginaw County Agricultural Society

On Farmers’ Day, September 15, 1949, a farmer’s wife and her 4-1/2-year-old son went to the fair. She paid admission and with her son was walking down the midway when suddenly there was the crack of a rifle. The boy fell, shot through the abdomen by a 22-caliber bullet. Testimony at trial of this case indicated that the shot came from a shooting gallery on the midway (closed to the public at the time) wherein a 15-year-old employee was cleaning a rifle.

With the astonishing resilience of the young, the boy came through extensive surgical repair of his punctured intestines and survived, and…