Kellam v. School Board of City of Norfolk

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that former § 22-290 “rendered the school board subject to action for the tort there alleged”
• explaining that school boards “constitute public quasi corporations that exercise limited powers and functions of a public nature granted to them expressly or by necessary implication, and none other”
• school boards “constitute public quasi corporations that exercise limited powers and functions of a public nature granted to them expressly or by necessary implication, and none other”
• such entities perform their governmental functions as state “agents” or “instrumentalities”
• \The basis for a school board's immunity from liability for tortious injury has been generally found in the fact that it is a governmental agency or arm of the state and acts in a governmental capacity in the performance of its duties imposed by law.\
• “[School boards] are involuntary corporations, organized not for the purpose of profit or gain, but solely for the public benefit . . . . Such corporations are but the agents of the State, for the sole purpose of administering the state system of public education.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).