Figliomeni v. Board of Education

Judgment unanimously modified by increasing the amount of the award to $175,000, with interest and costs, and as modified affirmed with costs to plaintiff. Memorandum: On May 20, 1966 plaintiff was accidentally struck in the head by a hard baseball thrown by defendant Gangemi, resulting in multiple fractures of the left frontal bone and injury to his brain requiring surgery.' As -a result of the accident he has, among other things, suffered post-traumatic epilepsy, which has not responded to medication, and a disabling dysphasia. The epileptic seizures are permanent and although he will have…