CAPITAL RACEWAY PROM. v. SMITH

No. 941, September Term, 1973.

22 Md. App. 224 (1974)

322 A.2d 238

CAPITAL RACEWAY PROMOTIONS, INC. v. BEVERLY VALENTINE SMITH ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence T. Scott for appellant and cross-appellee.

Joseph A. DePaul and John F. Calabrese, with whom were DePaul, Willoner & Kenkel on the brief, for appellees and cross-appellants.


LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

A defect inherent in the nature of man is that perversity of spirit which attracts us to spectacles of danger in which our fellow men risk death for our amusement. Although the events in the coliseums of ancient Rome were somewhat different from those held in their modern counterparts, spectators were perhaps subject to similar risks for there must have been occasions when a lion escaped the arena to prowl among the patrons...

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