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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