LAMESA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT v. Booe

David Booe d/b/a Booe Roofing Co. sued Lamesa Independent School District, seeking to recover under breach of implied contract and quantum meruit theories. The trial court denied the District’s plea to the jurisdiction based on sovereign immunity, issuing four conclusions of law in support of the denial. The court of ap peals affirmed, 2005 WL 2090670, basing its decision entirely on the trial court’s first conclusion — that the District’s immunity is waived by section 11.151(a) of the Education Code, which provides that “[t]he trustees of an independent school district constitute a body…