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LINXWILER v. EL DORADO SPORTS CENTER, INC.

No. 5-2238.

343 S.W.2d 411 (1961)

W. H. LINXWILER, Jr., Individually and as Next Friend of W. H. Linxwiler, III, Appellant, v. EL DORADO SPORTS CENTER, INC., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Whetstone, El Dorado, for appellant.

Mahony & Yocum, El Dorado, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

At about five a.m. on September 26, 1958, Billy Linxwiler, a boy of eighteen, was accidentally shot in the throat by an employee of the El Dorado Sports Center, an all-night bowling alley. Billy's father, the appellant, brought this action for his son's injuries and for his own hospital and medical expense. The jury returned a verdict for $1,400 for the boy's personal injuries but made no award to the father in his own right. Both parties...

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