Bush v. City of Norwalk

The plaintiff, a boy eight years old, brought this action to recover for injuries received by him resulting from a fall from a narrow wooden beam, while he was walking along it in the course of his training and instruction in a public school of the defendant city. The complaint alleged that this beam, from its construction and use upon the slippery floor of the class room where he fell, constituted a nuisance. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and the defendant has appealed both from the refusal of the trial court to set that verdict aside and from the judgment entered upon it.…