Scott v. Wm. M. Rice Institute

CODY, Justice.

Natalee Scott, a minor, by her father and next friend, who also acted on his own behalf, brought an action for personal injuries against William M. Rice Institute for Advancement of Literature, Science and Art. They alleged that as a proximate result of the negligence on the part of the defendant, the high heel of Miss Scott’s shoe caught in a crack between the planking of the standing platform adjacent to the seat she was occupying while attending the Rice-Sam Houston football game in Rice Stadium on the evening of October 4, 1941, so that she fell and received severe injuries.

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