Clark v. State

On February 9,1946, the claimant, Matthew B. Clark, Jr., then nineteen years of age, was participating in the North American championship four-man bobsled races, conducted at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobsled run near Lake Placid, New York, under the auspices of the Adirondack Bob-Sled Association, an affiliate of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. On his team’s second heat, the sled failed to negotiate the reverse curves known as Zig-Zag, and hurtled over the almost perpendicularly banked curve into the snow-covered and wooded mountainside. The claimant sustained several fractures…