Hoose v. S. S. Drumm

Plaintiff, ten years old, was a boy pupil in a district school of which the defendants were the trustees. On February 16, 1937, one of his eyes was destroyed by a goldenrod stalk thrown by another pupil when the school was at recess. The casualty happened on a part of the school property that was separated from the playground by a roadway. There was evidence that theretofore the pupils had torn off goldenrod stalks and thrown them at each other and that other boys had been thereby injured. There was evidence that the stalks grew in a ravine and that pupils playing there could not be seen from…