Hampton Roads Sanitation District v. City of Virginia Beach

This appeal involves issues of statutory immunity and collateral estoppel.

Jerry F. McDonnell filed a motion for judgment against Hampton Roads Sanitation District Commission (Hampton Roads) seeking compensation for damage to his land. McDonnell alleged that Hampton Roads wrongfully had discharged sewage and other pollutants onto his land. In addition to filing a plea of governmental immunity and a grounds of defense to the motion for judgment, Hampton Roads filed a third-party motion for judgment against the City of Virginia Beach (the City).

In its third-party motion for judgment, Hampton…