TORTS-LIABILITY FOR INFLICTING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT UPON A CHILD

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Plaintiff was an eleven year old boy who had been sent by his parents to work on defendant's farm. The boy's mother had signed a written statement, giving defendant authority to discipline him if and when he broke the regulations enforced upon the farm. The plaintiff had refused to perform some of the tasks assigned him, and had told several falsehoods, whereupon the defendant had inflicted corporal punishment upon his nude body by means of a crude rubber whip about 30 inches long. Held, one standing in loco parentis has the right to punish a child under his care, if the punishment is moderate and reasonable, and for the welfare of the child. But whether the correction is reasonable and proper, or whether it is immoderate and excessive, is a matter for judicial investigation. Steber v. Norris (Wis. 1925), 206 N. W. 173.

Recommended Citation

TORTS-LIABILITY FOR INFLICTING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT UPON A CHILD, 24 Mich. L. Rev. 597 (1926).
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