Isbell v. Tower Mill, Inc.

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• analyzing the Commonwealth’s immunity pertaining to simple negligence and nuisance claims stemming from a slip and fall
• opining on Kellam in a suit pertaining to injuries suffered by a slip and fall that Kellam “held that the school board had acted in a governmental capacity and was therefore immune from liability for both the negligence and nuisance claims” (emphases added)
• “[A] school board is an agent or instrumentality of the state, not a true municipality, and therefore ‘partakes of the state’s sovereignty with respect to tort liability.’” (quoting Kellam, 202 Va. at 259)

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