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BANKS v. SELLERS

Record No. 791850.

294 S.E.2d 862 (1982)

B. Lynette BANKS, et al. v. Joseph B. SELLERS, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan G. Moenssens, Kilmarnock (Moenssens & Moenssens, Kilmarnock, on brief), for appellants.

Joseph P. Rapisarda, Jr., Asst. County Atty. (William G. Broaddus, County Atty., J. T. Tokarz, Asst. County Atty., on brief), for appellees.

Before COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON, STEPHENSON and RUSSELL, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

THOMPSON, Justice.

In this appeal the sole issue is whether a plea of sovereign immunity is available to a division superintendent of schools and a high school principal in a negligence action.1

B. Lynnette Banks, a public high school student, was cut and stabbed by another student, Novita L. Goode, on school premises during school hours. Banks alleges that Joseph B. Sellers, Division Superintendent of Henrico County public schools...

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