Woods v. Town of Marion

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• holding that operating waterworks and performing routine street maintenance is a proprietary function
• finding that sovereign immunity did not bar negligence claims related to a municipality’s failure to maintain streets by not removing ice that had formed upon one of its streets when water leaked from pipes of the town’s waterworks
• finding that sovereign immunity did not bar negligence claims related to a municipality’s failure to maintain streets by not removing ice that had formed upon one of its streets when water leaked from pipes of the town’s waterworks
• reversing 5 granted plea of sovereign immunity when complaint alleged negligent maintenance of waterworks caused water to leak from pipes, freeze on a road, and contribute to a collision
• negligence in failing to maintain waterworks and streets were proprietary functions
• negligent operation of waterworks and street maintenance

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