Claimant's intestate, a child of eight years, was accidentally drowned when she strolled from a State park, passed through a small opening in a wire fence which bordered it and enclosed a reservoir owned by the City of New York, a part of its water supply system, and went wading therein. The deceased was a trespasser in going into the reservoir. The only notice to the State of any opening in the fence evidences it to have been a small one about a foot wide and two feet high...
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