Gleich v. Volpe

Chief Judge Fuld.

On a rainy afternoon in the spring of 1967, six-year-old Kathy Gleich was struck by a car driven by defendant Philip Volpe and sustained serious injuries; at the *520time she was crossing the road in front of a stopped school bus, from which she had just alighted, on her way to her home directly opposite the bus stop. Her father, Henry .Grleich, brought suit, on her behalf and on his own, against the school district — for negligence in placing the bus stop where it did — and against Volpe. Verdicts were obtained against these-defendants — for $50,000 in favor of Kathy and for…