D'Amelio v. State

The claim herein alleges that on July 24, 1955, while the claimant Katherine D’Amelio was walking along a pathway in the Anthony Wayne State Park in Orange County she was caused to trip over a tree stump due to the negligence of the State and its agencies in the maintenance, operation and control of the park. She sustained a fracture of the left wrist.

The claimants’ testimony was that, with others in their party, they made use of a dirt pathway between a parking area and a picnic area; that this was the means provided for the purpose, and, that there were a number of improperly cut and…