Kidwell v. School District No. 300

Judy Kidwell (a nine-year-old girl), hereinafter called the plaintiff, was painfully and permanently injured in a classroom of the Colfax elementary school when an upright piano tipped over. The accident occurred after regular school hours, while she was attending a meeting of the Bluebirds, a younger age group of the Campfire girls. The Bluebird group, directed by an adult supervisor (not a teacher), used the classroom after school hours for its weekly meeting by permission of the school authorities.

The plaintiff, through her stepfather and guardian ad litem, brought an action against the…