West v. Board of Education

The Board of Education of the City of New York, defendant in this negligence action, appeals, pursuant to leave granted by this court, from an order of the Appellate Term which unanimously affirmed, without opinion, a judgment of the City Court, Bronx County, in favor of the plaintiffs entered upon a unanimous verdict after trial before a court and jury.

The evidence establishes that the infant plaintiff, then six years old and a first year student at Public School No. 9 located in Bronx County, on May 21, 1951, sometime in the morning, in response to a direction from the teacher addressed to…