The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict in favor of a young man injured in a diving accident on Lake Shafer. The defendant corporation had placed a dredge pipe in a channel just off the dock of the young man's parents' lake home.  The pipe was not properly marked with buoys, and could not be seen from the dock. 

        When the young man dove off the dock he struck his head on the pipe, fractured three vertebrae in his neck and was rendered a paraplegic. The defendant corporation appealed the verdict raising multiple issues for the Court of Appeals to consider.  The Court of Appeals found in favor of the injured young man on all issues and affirmed the jury's verdict.