SAMMONS v. RIDGEWAY


293 A.2d 547 (1972)

Carmella SAMMONS, a minor by her next friend, Perry W. Sammons, and Perry W. Sammons, individually, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. Margaret RIDGEWAY et al., Defendants Below, Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

May 30, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Schmittinger, and John J. Schmittinger, of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, Dover, for plaintiffs below, appellees and cross-appellants.

Grover C. Brown, Dover, for Margaret Ridgeway, defendant below, appellant and cross-appellee.

Roger P. Sanders, of Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders, Wilmington, for Blanche Clark and Carroll L. Thompson, defendants below, appellants and cross-appellees.

Before WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ.


HERRMANN, Justice:

In this negligence action, the determinative question is whether violation of a State Board of Education regulation, governing the operation of school buses, constitutes negligence per se.

I.

A Statute of this State, 14 Del.C. § 2901,1 requires the State Board of Education, "by and with the advice of the Motor...

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