Skelly v. Pleasure Beach Park Corporation

The defendant corporation owned and operated an amusement park abutting on Long Island Sound, including bathhouses and a place for swimming and bathing in the waters of the Sound. A part of the beach, approximately four hundred feet in length, situated in front of the bathhouses, was enclosed by wire fences extending from the bathhouses to and below low-water mark, and this area was reserved for the use of the defendant’s patrons who paid the required admission charge. The defendant located and maintained in the water opposite this enclosure two floats and, midway between these but about…