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Torts - Liability Of Owners Of Baseball Park - Spectator Struck By Batted Ball
Torts - Liability Of Owners Of Baseball Park - Spectator Struck By Batted Ball
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff, a spectator at a baseball game, brought an action to recover for injuries sustained when he was struck by a foul ball. He was sitting in a reserved seat, but in a section of the grandstand not protected by a wire netting. Despite novel allegations designed, apparently, to suggest plaintiff's right to rely on the implication that a "reserved seat" is one which is located back of a protecting screen, and, further, to deny any μappreciation of the risk, on plaintiff's part, by suggesting that, at sixty-four, he was subject to the failing eyesight which customarily accompanies that …