Coates v. Tacoma School District No. 10

Hill,

A demurrer was sustained to a complaint which asked damages from the Tacoma school district for injuries suffered by a minor, a student in one of the Tacoma high schools, when a vehicle in which he was a passenger left the roadway and struck a telephone pole at 2:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. The driver of the car was a student at the same high school, and was driving at a “high, dangerous and unlawful rate of speed on a curvy road and while under the influence of intoxicating liquors.” This was many miles from the high school, and in another county.

The connection between the school…