Marlar v. Bill

This is an action brought in the General Sessions Court to recover damages on a charge of assault and battery and illegal search of the person. Billy Marlar, a boy between ten and eleven, resides with his mother in Memphis and was attending a public school, of which Miss Bill was Superintendent, and he was in the class room of Miss Browning. They are both experienced teachers of excellent reputation.- The boy violated a school regulation in going into the class room during recess and raising the windows. When asked about it, upon information that he had been in the room, the boy at first…