Siewert v. Loudonville Elementary School

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Keegan, J.), entered December 20, 1993 in Albany County, which, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion in limine.

Plaintiff’s daughter, an eight-year-old third-grade student at defendant Loudonville Elementary School, was injured during a recess period while snow sliding down a hill with 23 other children in her class. The activity consisted in the children squatting on their haunches and allowing their feet to slide the length of the slippery surface into a snow bank that had been plowed from the parking lot onto the base of the hill. On the day of…