Legal Opinion
City of Ferguson v. Marrow
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 3, 1954No. 14896PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLET, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff recovered a judgment against the City of Ferguson, Missouri, for personal injuries received by him when in diving from a diving board he struck his head on the bottom of a public swimming pool owned and operated by the City.
The negligence charged was that the pool was so designed and constructed that the water depth was inadequate and unsafe for the use of the diving hoard maintained by the City; that the water depth was misrepresented by an 11-foot mark on the sides of the pool at points where the water was not that deep; and failure to warn plaintiff of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Boyd v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1922
- Metz v. Kansas City, Mo.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1935
- Hays v. City of ColumbiaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1911
- Berry v. City of SedaliaCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1919
3Cited by6 opinions
- Cummings v. Nazareth BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- McLaughlin v. Rova Farms, Inc.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1970
- Joseph Skillken & Co. v. City of ToledoCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
- Markowitz & Co. v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Ohio · 1977
- Joseph Skillken and Co. v. City of Toledo, and Ragan Woods Homeowners Association, Inc., Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants. Joseph Skillken and Company v. City of ToledoCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
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