BAUER v. SAGINAW CTY. AG. SOC.

Docket Nos. 57, 58, Calendar Nos. 47,062, 47,063.

349 Mich. 616 (1957)

84 N.W.2d 827

BAUER v. SAGINAW COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. White, Jr., and Oscar W. Baker, for plaintiffs.

Stanton, MacKenzie, Cartwright & Walker (H. Monroe Stanton, of counsel), for defendant.


EDWARDS, J.

On Farmers' Day, September 15, 1949, a farmer's wife and her 4-1/2-year-old son went to the fair. She paid admission and with her son was walking down the midway when suddenly there was the crack of a rifle. The boy fell, shot through the abdomen by a 22-caliber bullet. Testimony at trial of this case indicated that the shot came from a shooting gallery on the midway (closed to the public at the time) wherein a 15-year-old employee was cleaning a rifle...

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