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BETTS v. CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Docket No. 14768.

108 Cal.App.2d 701 (1952)

239 P.2d 456

ELMER W. BETTS, Respondent, v. THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

January 16, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dion R. Holm, City Attorney, and William F. Bourne, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellant.

Partridge & O'Connell, Robert G. Partridge and John P. Whitney for Respondent.

NOURSE, P.J.

[1] Plaintiff had a verdict for $8,500 in damages for the death by drowning of his son in an artificial reservoir maintained by the city and county in the playground area of Golden Gate Park. This reservoir was located on Strawberry Hill which is an island-like body of land in the middle of Stow Lake. It was designed to provide an artificial waterfall for the pleasure of the public on Sundays

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