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SANSONE v. BECHTEL

180 Conn. 96 (1980)

KENNETH SANSONE v. FRED BECHTEL

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released March 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Serge G. Mihaly, with whom, on the brief, was Gary W. Nicholson, for the appellant (defendant).

Roger Sullivan, for the appellee (plaintiff).

COTTER, C. J., LOISELLE, BOGDANSKI, PETERS and PARSKEY, JS.

PARSKEY, J.

The single issue raised by this appeal is whether a public school teacher who inflicts excessive corporal punishment upon a pupil is immunized from liability. The trial court's resolution of this issue against the teacher generated this appeal.

The defendant is a music teacher at the Jared Eliot School in Clinton. The plaintiff, Kenneth Sansone, twelve years of age, was a student in the defendant's class...

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