LABOY v. WALLKILL CENT. SCH. DIST.


201 A.D.2d 780 (1994)

607 N.Y.S.2d 746

Patricia Ann Laboy, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Raymond Laboy, an Infant, Respondent, v. Wallkill Central School District et al., Appellants

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

February 3, 1994


Casey, J.

At issue on this appeal is whether a pole vaulter on a high school track team assumes the risk of injury as a matter of law when he attempts a vault at his first interscholastic competition and lands feet first on a seam in the landing mats, forcing them apart, which allows his knee to strike the pavement. Supreme Court denied defendants' motions for summary judgment. We affirm.

Plaintiff's son, Raymond Laboy, a 17-year-old student at...

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