Bathe v. Decatur County Agricultural Society
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Deeatur District Court — Hon. John W. Harvey, Judge. Action to recover for an injury alleged to have been done to the plaintiff’s inare by one Olark and one Wilson, as employes of the defendant. There was a demurrer to the petition, and the demurrer was sustained. The plaintiff electing to stand upon his petition, judgment was rendered against him for costs. He appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Oh. J.
The petition shows that the defendant is a corporation, organized to further the interest of agriculture, to improve and encourage the breeding of fine stock, to hold expositions of agricultural products and stock, to hold and give annual fairs, and to do and perform everything necessary and incident thereto; that in the fall of 1885 the defendant held its annual fair at its fair grounds in Decatur county, near the town of Leon; that, for the purpose of increasing the attendance and the gate receipts, the officers of the defendant employed one Olark and one Wilson to convey…
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