The Case of the Missing Hole

The following case was tried by the Queen's Bench of New Brunswick. The case involved a zoo patron who fell and twisted her ankle after feeding deer in a petting area of the zoo. The central question is if the municipal zoo had taken all available steps and precautions to warn of such hazardous conditions as allegedly were found in the petting zoo area. By presenting this transcript, we hope to show how a judge seeks to match previous cases to the one at hand and what factors, such as regularly documented inspections, benefit a municipality during a trial.