Guzzi v. New York Zoological Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Blanche Guzzi, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 31st day of January, 1920, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of January, 1920, upon which said judgment was entered.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
This action is brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at the so-called Bronx Zoo, where there were on exhibition various wild animals.
The plaintiff, a bright, intelligent girl of the age of twelve years and ten months, on November 17, 1917, in company with two other girls of about her own age and some younger children, went from her home two or three blocks distant to the Bronx Park Zoological Gardens to play. Between four and five o’clock in the afternoon the plaintiff with her two companions of about the same age were engaged in playing ball on a…
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