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SYDNEY SALAMOFF vs. BERNARD L. GODFREY another.

Exceptions overruled. This is an action of tort for negligent injury. The plaintiff and the individual defendant were members of the corporate defendant, Parkway Country Club, Inc., called Blue Hill Country Club, in which there was a steel-framed indoor golf practice cage. The plaintiff, who had driven some balls into the cage, either put down the driver, which was picked up by the individual defendant, or handed it to him. The plaintiff went to the rear of the room where he was struck in some manner by a ball while the individual defendant was practicing. The judge directed verdicts for the defendants. There was no error. The plaintiff was the player immediately preceding the individual defendant and, although the plaintiff had finished practicing, he had not left the room where the cage was when injured. The peril in remaining in what in effect was an enclosed driving range was obvious. The purpose was, of course, to drive into the net, but, as this case shows, there was a risk that all balls would not find the mark. This risk the plaintiff assumed both as to the owner of the premises and as to the following player. Katz v. Gow, 321 Mass. 666. Pouliot v. Black, 341 Mass. 531. See Hietala v. Boston Albany R.R. 295 Mass. 186, 188-191; Shaw v. Boston Am. League Baseball Co. 325 Mass. 419.

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SALAMOFF v. GODFREY
(May 2, 1962)