GIBSON v. SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASS'N

No. 48366.

65 N.W.2d 433 (1954)

GIBSON v. SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASS'N et al.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 26, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turner & Turner, of Avoca, and Fred Louis, Jr., of Harlan, for appellant.

Hines & Higgins and George O. Hurley, of Harlan, for appellee.


OLIVER, Justice.

Plaintiff, Max Gibson, then aged seventeen years, while a spectator at automobile races on the track at the fair grounds of defendant Shelby County Fair Association, was permanently paralyzed by a wheel which became detached from a speeding racer, broke through a wire fence beside the track and struck him. He brought this action for damages, by his father and next friend. Although officers and directors of the Fair Association are named defendants...

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