Case Name: Edward Hoose, an Infant under Fourteen Years of Age, by Ella Hoose, His Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. S. S. Drumm and Others, as Trustees of School District Number 1 of the Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-11-23
Citations: 255 A.D. 417
Docket Number: 
Parties: Edward Hoose, an Infant under Fourteen Years of Age, by Ella Hoose, His Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. S. S. Drumm and Others, as Trustees of School District Number 1 of the Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 417–422

Head Matter:
Edward Hoose, an Infant under Fourteen Years of Age, by Ella Hoose, His Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. S. S. Drumm and Others, as Trustees of School District Number 1 of the Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York, Respondents.
Third Department,
November 23, 1938.
William E. J. Connor, for the appellant.
Murphy, Aldrich, Guy & Broderick [Morris Simon of counsel], for the respondents.

Opinion:
Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.
Hill, P. J.,
Rhodes and Crapser, JJ., concur; Hill, P. J., upon the ground that the injury was received on a portion of defendants' lands across the highway from the school and playground. It was unfenced and in the state in which nature had left it. Plaintiff was not invited to go thereon more than upon lands owned by a private individual. The injury was received through the act of another pupil, against which defendants could not and did not attempt to guard; McNamee, J., dissents, with an opinion; Heffernan, J., dissents, with an opinion.