BEASLEY BY AND THROUGH BEASLEY v. MORTON

88-1530.

564 So.2d 45 (1990)

William Allen BEASLEY, a minor, By and Through his father and next friend, Albert Eugene BEASLEY, Jr.; and Albert Eugene Beasley, Jr. v. Lee MORTON and Shannon Bottoms.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Gordon Pate and Michael B. Walls of Pate, Lewis & Lloyd, Birmingham, for appellants.

Burgin H. Kent of Bishop, Colvin & Johnson, and Mark S. Boardman of Porterfield, Bainbridge, Mims, Harper & Mills, Birmingham, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

This appeal presents a question of the liability of an elementary school principal and a physical education teacher for an injury to a child who was cut by glass falling from a light bulb after it was hit by a ball.

William Allen Beasley, a sixth-grade student, was injured by falling glass after a ball hit a light bulb in a light fixture hanging from the ceiling of the Fultondale Elementary School gymnasium; the falling glass cut him around...

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