Johnson City Board of Education v. Ray

Ida Bay, by next friend, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, instituted this suit against the city of Johnson City, the Board of Education of Johnson City, the individual members of said board and Garfield Crowe to recover damages for injuries which she received, of a serious and permanent nature, when a suspended horizontal ladder in the gymnasium of the Johnson City Junior High School, on which she was exercising, fell.

Before the trial of the case the suit was voluntarily dismissed as to the city, certain individual members of the Board of Education and the defendant Crowe. The case…