Smith v. Johnson

Alfred D. Smith, plaintiff, was 12 years of age when, by his next friend and legal guardian, Miss Charlotte Worley, he began this action against Theodore Johnson, Charles Tuchelc, Mrs. Flora Bergfield, Joseph Reiman and William Kiester, defendants, as alleged in plaintiff’s brief, “to recover damages in the sum of $2,500 for humiliation and injury by reason of a wrongful, malicious and illegal expulsion from school.” Defendants recovered a verdict and judgment of dismissal and plaintiff appealed.

*62Theodore Johnson was director, Charles Tuchek, moderator, and Mrs. Flora Bergfield, treasurer, of…