Keesee v. Board of Education

This case was previously tried. The jury disagreed. Upon the retrial, the parties waived a trial by jury and submitted the case to me for determination on the record of the previous trial and other additional data.

On January 29, 1955 the plaintiff, then a student at Whitlow Reed Junior High School, Brooklyn, was injured in the course of a game of line soccer played on a gymnasium floor area of about 60 feet in length and 50 feet in width. The game was conducted and supervised by a regularly appointed teacher as part of a physical education program approved by the defendant. I accept and…