Gibson Ex Rel. Gibson v. Shelby County Fair Ass'n

Plaintiff, Max Gibson, then age seventeen years, while a spectator at automobile races on the track at the fairgrounds of defendant Shelby County Fair Association, was permanently paralyzed by a wheel which became detached from a speeding racer, broke through a wire fence beside the track, and struck him. He brought this action for damages, by his father and next friend. Although officers and directors of the Fair Association are named defendants with it, the association appears to be the only actual defendant. A former appeal in this case, decision reported in 241 Iowa 1349, 44 N.W.2d 362,…