Ward v. School District No. 18

On the 18th day of February, 1936, during the noon recess, five boys and three girls, all of whom were pupils in attendance at the school of defendant school district were playing hide and seek. Four of the boys, in order to hide from the other children, climbed upon a table, from there into a closet, the door to which was some five feet from the floor, and from there into the attic above an anteroom in the schoolhouse of defendant school district. The group seeking to find those in hiding consisted of three girls and plaintiff’s ward. In his pursuit of the other boys, plaintiff’s ward…