SHEARER v. PERRY COMMUNITY SCH. DIST.

No. 2-56764.

236 N.W.2d 688 (1975)

Kenneth L. SHEARER, Jr., a minor by Kenneth L. Shearer, his natural father and next friend, and Kenneth L. Shearer, Appellants, v. PERRY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellee, Nichols Wrestling Products, Inc., and Universal Athletic Sales Co., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Soumas, and Spellman, Spellman & Spellman, Perry, for appellants.

L. W. Rosebrook, of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler & Haynie, Des Moines, for appellee Perry Community School District.

Considered en banc.


REES, Justice.

Plaintiffs appeal from the order of the trial court sustaining motion of defendant Perry Community School District for summary judgment and dismissing plaintiffs' petition as against the school district. We affirm.

On March 25, 1971, Kenneth L. Shearer, Jr., then age 14 and a student at Perry Community High School, was engaged in an exercise known as "curling" which involved lifting a weight attached to a bar with a cable, on a device described...

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