Legal Opinion
Safchik v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 1, 1990PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*278On June 18, 1984, at Elementary School 64 in The Bronx, Elaine Safchik sustained injury while leading a class down a flight of stairs to the school gymnasium. Plaintiffs offered evidence which tended to show that, because a light on the landing between the first and second floors was burned out, she stumbled, twisting her ankle and twisting her back as she caught herself on the bannister. That evening she developed numbness radiating up the side of her leg. She spent the next two years on sick leave and was unable to resume her teaching duties until September 1986.
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