Caroline v. Reicher

According to the Maternal and Child Health Service of the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, “Lead poisoning in children, resulting mostly from ingestion of chips of lead-containing paint from walls and woodwork in old, dilapidated housing, remains a unique public health problem.” 1 Each year this spreading epidemic causes “the deaths of many children and mental retardation or other neurological handicap in many other children.” 2 This appeal presents one such case. Here, the'appellants, Dawn Caroline and her mother, who were tenants in an apartment owned and operated by…