Thompson v. Board of Education

Plaintiff, a girl fourteen years of age, was a pupil in a public school in New York city of which defendant Burger was principal. While descending an outside stairway of the school with her class, which consisted of twenty-four or twenty-five children, and as she reached the third of fourth step from the yard, one of the boys in the class, running down the stairway, collided with her and caused her to fall and to sustain injury. The complaint is based upon “ defendant’s negligence in allowing overcrowding to take place and to permit roughing by large boys, wholly without any supervision…