Opinion

Donovan v. Board of Education

  • 14 Jones & S. 565
Court
The Superior Court of New York City
Filed
May 3, 1880
Status
Published
Cited by
0 cases

The opinion

Per Curiam.

The complaint avers injury sustained in November, 1875, by the plaintiff falling into a grating left open for the purpose of hoisting materials from the cellar in the yard of a public school building *566 in the city of New York, in consequence of the negligence of defendant’s servants.

The answer denies the foregoing allegations.

The testimony does not connect the defendant with the repairs, custody or control of the premisés or the work which was going on when the accident occurred.

The Board of Education was not the employer or responsible superior of the persons by whose negligence the accident occurred. The case presents the facts as proven, which show that the negligent act was not a corporate or official act, or omission of a servant necessarily employed by it.

The complaint was properly dismissed, and the judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

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