Schock v. Ringling Bros. Etc.

Amos D. Schock brought this action, on his own behalf, and as guardian ad litem of his three minor daughters, Jacqualine, Evangeline, and Marian, to recover damages resulting from injuries sustained by the three children while watching the unloading of defendant’s circus within a railroad yard in Yakima. A trial to the court, sitting without a jury, resulted in findings of fact in favor of plaintiffs in varying amounts. From a judgment entered in accordance with the findings, defendant appealed.

On August 23, 1939, at about 2:30 a. m., appellant’s-circus arrived in Yakima, Washington, by way…