SPANEL v. MOUNDS VIEW SCHOOL DIST. NO. 621

No. 38,513.

264 Minn. 279 (1962)

118 N.W. (2d) 795

JEFFREY SPANEL, A MINOR, BY CHARLES SPANEL, HIS FATHER AND NATURAL GUARDIAN, AND ANOTHER v. MOUNDS VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 621 AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertie & Bettenburg and John Claeson, for appellants.

Meagher, Geer, Markham & Anderson, O.C. Adamson II, and M.J. Coyne, for respondent.

William H. DeParcq, Charles T. Hvass, Eugene A. Rerat, Donald L. Rudquist, Israel Steingold, and Charles Alan Wright, for National Association of Claimants' Counsel of America, amicus curiae.

Walter F. Mondale, Attorney General, and Linus J. Hammond, Assistant Attorney General, amici curiae.

Orville C. Peterson and David J. Kennedy, for League of Minnesota Municipalities, amicus curiae.

Peter S. Popovich, Edward P. Starr, and Peterson & Popovich, for Minnesota School Boards Association, Metropolitan-Suburban School Boards Association, and certain school districts, amici curiae.

Ralph T. Keyes, for State Association of County Commissioners, amicus curiae.

Robert J. Swords, Corporation Counsel of St. Paul, amicus curiae.

Keith M. Stidd, City Attorney of Minneapolis, and G.V. Johnson, Assistant City Attorney, amici curiae.

Montreville J. Brown, Gordon Shepard, and Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Baer & Wolff, for Metropolitan Airports Commission, amicus curiae.

Harry E. Weinberg, City Attorney of Duluth, and D. Peter Rask, Assistant City Attorney, amici curiae.

William B. Randall, County Attorney of Ramsey County, and Thomas Quayle, Assistant County Attorney, amici curiae.


OTIS, JUSTICE.

Plaintiff sues on behalf of his 5-year-old son to recover damages from a school district and a teacher and principal employed by it for injuries resulting from the alleged negligence of defendants in permitting a defective slide to remain in the kindergarten classroom of an elementary school.

Plaintiff appeals from an order granting a motion to dismiss the action as to defendant school district on the ground the complaint fails to state a claim...

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