May v. Board of Education

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff, and by his father for loss of services, plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered upon the dismissal of the complaint at the close of plaintiffs’ case. While the infant plaintiff was standing in the playground of the school premises maintained by defendant, three boys without warning and without cause pulled him backward and threw him to the ground, causing him to fall on a clinker on the surface of the playground. The proximate cause of the accident was the unforeseen intervention of the three unknown…