Brooks v. Jacobs

This is an action of negligence brought by the plaintiff against his former manual training schoolteacher. Jury tried, verdict was for the defendant. The plaintiff presents twenty-one exceptions, four with relation to admissibility of evidence (only one is now pressed), four to instructions to the jury, and thirteen to refusals of requested insturctions. Although the exceptions to instructions given and to the refusals to instruct are many, they really involve one issue of law: viz., the duty, if any, owed by the defendant to the plaintiff as a basis of negligence.

The accident happened on…