Brown v. State

This is a claim to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant claimant as the result of an alleged assault and battery committed upon him by a supervisor of the State Agricultural and Industrial School at Industry, New York. The father and guardian ad litem of the infant seeks to recover damages for medical expenses and for loss of services.

In September, 1956, claimant, then 14 years of age, was confined to the State Agricultural and Industrial School at Industry, New York, where he was assigned to a certain cottage and attended manual arts classes. He testified that on…