GAMBRELL v. CITY OF NORFOLD

Record No. 030295.

593 S.E.2d 246 (2004)

267 Va. 353

Daniell E. GAMBRELL v. CITY OF NORFOLK.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew R. Sebok, Norfolk(Jeffrey G. Halverson, Virginia Beach, on briefs), for appellant.

Harold P. Juren, Chief Deputy City Attorney (Bernard A. Pishko, City Attorney, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KEENAN, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of a defendant municipal corporation in a personal injury action involving a "slip and fall" accident on snow and ice in a city-owned parking lot. The dispositive issue is whether the circuit court erred in sustaining the defendant's plea of sovereign immunity. We consider whether, at the time of the plaintiffs fall, the municipality was exercising a "governmental function" during snow removal operations after...

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