Wischenbart v. Town of New Britain

This action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by reason of the fact that the plaintiff was struck in the face by a discus thrown by a person not a party to this action in a public park maintained by the defendant. The action sounds in nuisance, the allegation in the complaint being that “in allowing and permitting the game of discus throwing in a public park without any supervision and at a place where young children were apt to be, with the likelihood that injury would result to innocent passersby from such an inherently dangerous game, the defendant was guilty of…