Chesser Ex Rel. Chesser v. Louisville Country Club

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Richard T. Chesser was a golf caddy at the Louisville Country Club on May 22, 1955. He lacked two months of being seventeen years old. It was the custom of the •caddies, while waiting to be called for service, to gather in or near the caddy house and engage in playing cards, knocking golf .balls and other pastimes. While doing so on that day, Richard chased a cat down- 14 or 15 steps into the club house boiler room. He saw three or four bottles on a shelf, one of which, at least, was labeled whiskey of a well-known brand. It contained a dark liquor, and the label led the…