Thomason v. County of Suffolk

This is an action for a declaratory judgment brought to determine the infant plaintiff’s right to transportation at public expense to a special school for emotionally disturbed children, located in Suffolk County. The matter was submitted to the court upon an agreed state of facts, which are summarized as follows:

The infant plaintiff, seven years of age, has attended the Suffolk Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children, Inc., at Westhampton Beach, New York, a distance of more than 20 miles from his home at Wainscott, New York. Since 1954, the County of Suffolk has appropriated funds for the…