Mooney v. Carter

ON October 19, 1939, plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, was engaged as special policeman, without uniform, at Cheesman Park in Denver, which had been closed to automobile traffic by the police department on account of the summer opera. He had been stationed at the corner of Ninth avenue and Humboldt street and pursuant to instructions from his superior had put a barricade across the south half of Ninth avenue and in the center of the street the ordinary type of sign bearing the words "Street Closed," on a stand about thirty to thirty-five inches high. He had placed no barricade…