Cooper v. Reading

How courts have described this case

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• holding city liable when boys fell through ice and drowned in pool that looked like oversized puddle but had concealed sixteen-foot hole in center
• reiterating that ponds embody perils that are deemed to be obvious to children where there are no unusual dangers
• reiterating that ponds embody perils that are deemed to be obvious to children where there are no unusual dangers
• allowing judgment in favor of estates of two young brothers who entered defendant’s property to ice-skate but who drowned when they fell through ice into deceptively deep pool
• defendant exercised sufficient control over easement to be subject to liability as a possessor of land
• municipality with power under easement to enter a canal bed and make alterations and repairs liable as a possessor of land for injury occurring on easement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).