MEYERS v. CITY OF NEW YORK


230 A.D.2d 691 (1996)

646 N.Y.S.2d 685

Jaye L. Meyers et al., Respondents, v. City of New York, Defendant, and Board of Education of the City of New York, Appellant

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

August 29, 1996


Plaintiff Jaye L. Meyers, a teacher with the Board of Education of the City of New York, was injured when, in the schoolyard of PS/IS 187, she was struck in her right eye by a handball, suffering a "blow out fracture of the right orbit". Liability at trial was predicated upon the school's policy of requiring homeroom teachers, such as Ms. Meyers, to be in the schoolyard five minutes before the end of recess and the lack of supervision of the students' activities in the schoolyard...

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