AUDLEY v. MELTON

No. 93-188.

138 N.H. 416 (1994)

SHANNON AUDLEY v. BILL MELTON INDIVIDUALLY AND d/b/a BILL MELTON PRODUCTIONS

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

April 12, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., of Manchester (John P. Kacavas on the brief, and Ronald W. Cox, Jr. orally), for the plaintiff.

Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., of Manchester (Andrew D. Dunn on the brief, and Julie Ann Boyle orally), for the defendant.


HORTON, J.

The plaintiff, Shannon Audley, appeals from a grant of summary judgment by the Superior Court (Morrill, J.), arguing that two exculpatory contracts she signed did not release the defendant from liability for his own negligence. We reverse.

The plaintiff, a professional model, was bitten on the head by an adult male lion with which she had been posing during a photography shoot at the studio of the defendant, Bill Melton. The plaintiff filed...

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