Phillips v. Johns

This is an action by Catherine Phillips, a minor, by her next friend, to recover damages for trespass vi et armis in that she was forcibly searched for stolen money by a teacher in a public school that she attended.

There is little dispute about the facts. Plaintiff in error, a minor almost fifteen years of age, was a pupil in the Howard School, a public school of the City of Nashville.

On the morning of March 30, 1928, Catherine Phillips took some flowers to school to her teacher, Mrs. Rose Felknor, aiid put them into a vase which was placed on her teacher’s desk. She then went into the study…