Johnson v. Board of Ed., Wildwood

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The defendant, board of education, built a school house for the education of colored children, and employed the plaintiff James A. L. Johnson as janitor. By some express or tacit arrangement he was allowed to substitute his wife, Nellie C. Johnson, to attend to some of the duties of janitor, and while she was working as such substitute in the basement of the building, she sustained personal injury for which she seeks in this suit to hold the board in damages, her husband joining his claim pro quod. The complaint charged, and the evidence…