RAFFA v. CENT. SCH. DIST. NO. 1 OF THE TOWNS OF CAIRO


16 A.D.2d 855 (1962)

Paula F. Raffa et al., Appellants, v. Central School District No. 1 of the Towns of Cairo, Durham, Athens, Catskill, Coxsackie and Greenville, County of Greene, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 9, 1962


Plaintiff paid admission to attend a public basketball game in the school premises owned by the defendant school district and after the game went into the school cafeteria where she bought some food. While seated at a table, the chair gave way and collapsed and she was thrown to the floor, sustaining a herniated intervertebral disc and some injuries to the muscles. Since the chair was in the full control of the defendant and furnished to the plaintiff as a business invitee...

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