Legal Opinion
Gibson v. Keith
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided April 26, 1985PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORSEY, Justice:
This interlocutory appeal of a personal injury suit pending before trial in Superior Court was accepted to determine a limited issue of statutory construction: What property owners are entitled to invoke the provisions of 7 Del.C., chapter 59 in defense of tort claims asserted by strangers injured on private property in the course of recreational pursuits?
The suit arises from a swimming accident in the summer of 1980 at a water hole in a gravel pit in an isolated area of Sussex County. Plaintiff, Richard Keith, Jr., then a 17-year old minor, suffered paralytic injuries when he…
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