Merrill v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago

delivered the opimon of the court:

The sole question presented in tMs appeal is whether a non-profit private school and its staff are liable for personal injuries suffered at the school by a student due to ordinary negligence.

The complaint charged that m March 1968 Raymond Merrill, 12 years old and a 7th grade student at a parocMal school in Wadsworth, Illinois, was sent by Ms teacher to a room to cut lengths of wire from a coil to be used for making sculptures in art class. WMle doing so he was struck in the left eye by the end of the wire on the coil with the result of loss of vision in that…