Prendergast v. Masterson

WILLSON, O. J.

(after stating the facts as above). [1] The cause was tried in the court below on the theory that it was lawful for appellee, as superintendeit of the Marshall city schools, if it reasonably appeared to him that appellant had violated the rules and regulations of those schools, to administer corporal punishment to appellant by chastising him in a moderate and humane manner. Whether the theory was a correct one or not is the question to be determined. It was not incorrect, and the trial court did not misinterpret the law, if the superintendent of such schools was a “teacher”…