CHANDLER v. MASSA

No. 18405.

415 F.2d 560 (1969)

Don Finis CHANDLER, a minor, by mother and next friend, Vera Chandler, and Vera Chandler, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Martha Gummer MASSA and Joseph M. Massa, individually, and doing business as Oak Lake Club, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

August 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Buford and Paul Denton, Memphis, Tenn., for appellants.

Albert T. McRae, Memphis, Tenn. (Nelson Norvell, Wilson, McRae, Ivy & Farmer, Memphis, Tenn., for Joseph M. Massa d/b/a Oak Lake Club, H. H. McKnight, Memphis, Tenn., for Joseph M. Massa, Individually and Martha Gummer Massa Individually and d/b/a Oak Lake Club, on the brief), for appellees.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, O'SULLIVAN and PECK, Circuit Judges.


WEICK, Chief Judge.

Appellants, who are mother and son, have appealed from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict in an action for personal injuries sustained by the son when he, along with his teen-age brother and a cousin, were trespassing on fenced pasture land owned by defendants but leased to Whitehaven Saddle Club.

The defendants owned a 34 acre tract of land the easterly half of which was used for picnics, rodeos and dances and was known as the...

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