Lawver v. Joint District No. 1

It appears that appellant’s son, Walter H. Wilson, was instantly killed on October 11, 1938, while upon the school grounds of defendant School District, by a falling-portion of the flagpole located on the school grounds but apart from the school building. It is alleged that the defendant School District had erected and maintained said flagpole in a manner causing a condition of rust, decay, and destruction of the material from which it was constructed; that such decay and decomposition was caused by an accumulation of water, snow, and ice seeping into the joints and unions of said flagpole.…