Friday, October 19th 1945
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
PUNISHMENT OF BOY: ACTION AGAINST HEADMASTER FAILS
FELDMAN v. EVANS
Before MR. JUSTICE WROTTESLEY
HIS LORDSHIP have judgment for the defendant in the action in which Peter Feldman, a boy aged eight years, suing by his father, Mr. Emmanuel Feldman, of Aylmer Road, Finchley, N., and Mr. Feldman claimed damages for alleged assault from Mr. A. Myddleton Evans, the head master of Leas House School, Kingsley Way, Finchley.
The plaintiffs’ case was that on March 10, 1944, Mr. Evans beat the boy by striking him on the leg with a stick or other instrument, drawing blood.