Charles Bank v. Brainerd School District
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Charles Bank, from an order of the District Court, Grow Wing County, Holland, J., made September 25, 1891, directing judgment to be entered on the pleadings in favor of the defendant, Brainerd School District. The plaintiff’s son Frederick, eight years old, while at play on the schoolgrounds about the Lowell Schoolhouse in Brainerd, fell and broke his leg.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Charles Bank, from an order of the District Court, Grow Wing County, Holland, J., made September 25, 1891, directing judgment to be entered on the pleadings in favor of the defendant, Brainerd School District. The plaintiff’s son Frederick, eight years old, while at play on the schoolgrounds about the Lowell Schoolhouse in Brainerd, fell and broke his leg. The complaint stated that defendant negligently allowed to remain in the playground two willow stumps three inches high and six inches apart at the ground, but near together at the top, dry, solid, and firmly set. That…
1Opinion of the CourtVandebburgh, J.
By Sp. Laws 1881, ch. 134, the defendant, Brainerd School District", was made the successor of an independent school district embracing the same territory, and was made subject to the general laws of the state governing independent school districts, and for the purposes of this case must be treated as an ordinary independent school district.
Such districts are a part of the public educational system of the state, established in pursuance of the Constitution, art. 8, § 1, which makes it the duty of the legislature to establish a general and uniform system of public schools.
The defendant school…
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