Opinion ID: 1190662
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: want schools free from accidents

Text: The county superintendents, in convention at the Methodist Church yesterday, went on record as favoring the bill that would release the schools from all liability from accidents that happen on the school grounds. Superintendents Goss of Thurston County and Johnson of Walla Walla County sent the measure to the rules committee of the House of Representatives and a petition was presented to Representative Aspinwall asking that the bill be put on the House calendar. (Emphasis supplied.) This last reference is pertinent in indicating that the legislature was not merely acting gratuitously and solely on its own initiative with respect to liability of school districts under Rem. Code, § 951, but was being actively petitioned by county school superintendents; that the county superintendents and the legislature may very well have been considering specifically the factual situations involved in the three cases pending before the supreme court and similar situations involving actual or potential liability in so far as school districts were concerned. In other words, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 4706, was enacted by the legislature to accomplish a specific purpose; and, in a manner of speaking, was directed at a specific evil or problem, namely, liability of school districts arising out of the use of playground and manual training apparatus, appliance, or equipment, where injuries resulted to students as actors or users of such.