Rook v. State

Claimants, father and daughter, respectively, have appealed from judgments of the Court of Claims dismissing their claims on the merits.

On June 4, 1930, the infant claimant, then a child of eleven years of age and weighing seventy-four pounds, was a student in one of the grammer schools of the city of Cortland. It had been the practice of students at the Cortland Normal School to conduct physical training classes for practice work in the grade schools of the city. The principal and the various teachers of the normal school were employees of and paid by the State of New York. The teachers of…