Rainbow Enterprises v. Estelle Louis Thompson and Willard C. Thompson

Appellants husband and wife sued The Board of Public Instruction of Franklin County, Florida, and others, for injuries sustained by wife while a paying spectator at a high school baseball game. The contest was being played on an athletic field owned by the School Board and operated as a facility of the public school system of Franklin County. The complaint alleges that defendants negligently permitted a protective wire screen between the grandstand and playing field to deteriorate as a result of which a foul ball came through a hole in the screen striking plaintiff in the eye and causing serious damage. From a summary judgment entered in favor of all defendants plaintiffs have appealed.