Luna v. Needles Elementary School District

This is an action for damages for an injury suffered by the minor plaintiff, a pupil at a kindergarten maintained by the defendant, which resulted in the loss of his left index finger to the first joint. The accident happened on September 26, 1952, which was the minor plaintiff’s fifth birthday. It appears from a map in evidence that this kindergarten building was toward the rear of the school grounds, and there was a black-top sidewalk leading from the building across a lawn to the main entrance to the grounds, where the sister of the minor plaintiff testified that they would park and wait…