DOYLE v. COLLEGE


403 A.2d 1206 (1979)

Leonard F. DOYLE, pro ami, v. Bowdoin COLLEGE, Sidney J. Watson, Charles E. Holt, Jr. v. COOPER INTERNATIONAL, INC., Cooper of Canada, Leon Ouimet, Maurice van Lonkhuyzen and Margaret Doyle.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

July 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monaghan & Leahy by Thomas F. Monaghan (orally), William D. Pinansky, Portland, for plaintiff.

Thompson, Willard & McNaboe by U. Charles Remmel, II (orally), M. Roberts Hunt, Herbert Sawyer, Portland, for defendant.

Before POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

Brian Doyle, son of Leonard F. Doyle, was playing floor hockey at a two week summer session hockey clinic, sponsored by Bowdoin College and directed by defendants Sidney Watson and Charles Holt, Jr., when a plastic hockey blade flew off the end of a hockey stick wielded by Leon Ouimet and hit him in the eye, shattering his glasses and damaging his retina so as to leave him partially blind. Leonard F. Doyle, as next friend of his son, instituted this...

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