Kass v. Board of Education

The accident which resulted in the tragic death of the deceased is to a degree unexplained. The deceased, a senior at Junior High School No. 127 in The Bronx, with a notable record .of scholastic accomplishment, was operating the crank of a gear box designed to raise and lower a screen in the school auditorium. He received a severe blow on the head and it is plaintiff’s theory that the removable crank was inadvertently pulled from the gear box with such force that, although deceased retained hold of it, it struck him, inflicting the blow from which he later died.

There was no defect in the…