Riley v. Board of Education of Central School District No. 1

Defendants appeal, in an automobile negligence action, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

The cause of action against the school district was dismissed at the close of all of the evidence and is not part of this appeal.

Decedent, the eight-year-old son of the plaintiff, was a student at the defendant school. On the day of the accident the defendant McGinnis, a schoolteacher, invited the decedent and other children to ride home in her automobile rather than wait for the school bus. When she reached a location on the road approximately opposite the decedent’s home, she pulled her car off…