KIDWELL v. SCHOOL DIST. NO. 300

No. 34791.

53 Wn.2d 672 (1959)

335 P.2d 805

JUDY KIDWELL, a Minor, by James Keys, her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 300, WHITMAN COUNTY, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

February 26, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Del Cary Smith & Del Cary Smith, Jr., and D.L. McMannis, for appellant.

James D. McMannis and Ellsworth I. Connelly, for respondent.


HILL, J.

Judy Kidwell (a nine-year-old girl), hereinafter called the plaintiff, was painfully and permanently injured in a classroom of the Colfax elementary school when an upright piano tipped over. The accident occurred after regular school hours, while she was attending a meeting of the Bluebirds, a younger age group of the Campfire girls. The Bluebird group, directed by an adult supervisor (not a teacher), used the classroom after school hours for its weekly meeting...

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