Bernier v. Woodstock Agricultural Society
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Windham County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtThayek, J.
The plaintiff upon the trial claimed that the evidence showed that while his intestate, Joseph G. Bernier, Jr., a boy twelve years and nine months of age, was witnessing a balloon ascension upon the defendant’s fair grounds, a rope attached to the balloon as it ascended became wound around the boy’s leg, carrying him up for the distance of three hundred feet into the air, whence he fell to the ground and was killed. He claimed also, as charged in the complaint, that this was caused by the defendant’s negligence in failing to furnish spectators, including the intestate, a safe place to view…
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