Hamburger v. Cornell University

This is a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The complaint attempts to state a cause of action in negligence as follows: The defendant is a domestic corporation; in October, 1915, the plaintiff went to Cornell University, paid the matriculation fee of five dollars and the infirmary fee of three dollars, entering a course in the home economics department, which included a course or branch *565called Chemistry One; she paid a laboratory fee of fifteen dollars and became a student in the university, taking the course…