White v. Board of Education

The question is whether defendant may be held to answer for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Edward H. White. The facts are stated in the charge as follows; “ On the 16th day of September, 1932, Edward H. White, then a boy thirteen years of age, was attending school No. 5. A wall then ran north and south through the school yard. It was constructed of Roman brick laid at a width of twelve and a quarter inches, to a height of seven feet six inches. Upon the top of this brick structure there was a terra cotta coping twenty-four and a quarter inches wide and nine and three-quarter inches high.…