Esposito v. City of New Haven

On September 23, 1938, the plaintiff sustained a collapsed lung while playing in an interscholastic football game on the team representing the Com mercial High School, a public school then operated by the defendant city. He seeks in this action to- recover from the city and the football coach the medical expenses incurred by him for the treatment of the injury. He bases his action on a twofold claim: first, that before he participated in the game it had been represented to him by the defendant Walker, then general director of athletics and football coach of the school, that the plaintiff was…