Taylor v. City of Newport News

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that, when government and proprietary functions are coinciding, the governmental function is overriding
• finding city immune from tort liability where plaintiff slipped on grease spilled by garbage collector
• “[A municipality] is immune from liability for negligence in performing or in failing to perform governmental functions.”
• fall caused by slippery substance left on sidewalk by city garbage collector
• collection of garbage held to be a governmental activity
• collection of garbage held to be a governmental activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).