Clay v. Chicago Board of Education

This case involves a personal injury action for damages arising when David Reed 1 allegedly struck plaintiff, a fellow student, while in a classroom of the Chicago Board of Education (hereafter defendant). Plaintiff appeals from an order of the trial court holding that plaintiff’s second amended complaint be dismissed with prejudice as against defendant.

Count I of plaintiff’s second amended complaint alleged that on March 6, 1972, plaintiff was a minor, 11 years old, and was in the sixth grade at defendant’s elementary school; that defendant had supervision and control of the school; that a…