Maher v. Madison Square Garden Corporation
Margaret Maher, as Administratrix of the Estate of Philip Maher, Deceased, Respondent, v. Madison Square Garden Corporation, Appellant, Impleaded With Another
Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.
The evidence establishes that plaintiff’s intestate, a boy fourteén years of age, was drowned in a swhnming pool conducted for profit by the defendant. Though the swimming pool was crowded at the time, apparently no one saw the fatality. We know only that he was playing in the pool one afternoon and his dead body was found in another part of the pool the next morning, and that death was caused by asphyxiation. No inference can be drawn that by act or omission of the defendant or any of its employees the boy was placed in a position of danger which caused hi; death, or that any greater care by the defendant could have averted accident. The judgments should be reversed and complaint dismissed, with costs in all courts.
His cock, Ch. J., Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ., concur; Cardozo, J., absent.
Judgments reversed.
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