LEE v. STATE

No. 1395.

490 P.2d 1206 (1971)

Elizabeth Llewellyn LEE, a minor, by and through her next friend, Sallie Newman Lee, natural mother, v. STATE of Alaska and Frank Johnson, State Trooper, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Z. Rehbock and J.L. McCarrey, Jr., Anchorage, for appellant.

George N. Hayes and Daniel A. Moore, Jr., of Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BONEY, C.J., and DIMOND, RABINOWITZ and CONNOR, JJ.


OPINION

BONEY, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff-appellant appeals from a judgment for the defendants-appellees.

On August 19, 1967, the plaintiff, then a child of twelve, and a thirteen year old friend attended an amusement park in Anchorage, Alaska. They stopped to pet a lioness kept in a cage by the operator of the amusement concession, Alaska Amusements, Inc. The beast thereupon grabbed the plaintiff's arm...

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