Moore v. Board of Directors of City Trusts

OPINION BY

Judge LEADBETTER.

Rosalind Moore sued Girard College, its Board of Managers and the Board of Directors of City Trusts (Board) to recover damages for injuries sustained by her son while he was a boarding student at the school. Defendants, in preliminary objections, asserted sovereign immunity premised upon the contention that the Board of Directors of City Trusts is the state agency created by statute to administer the College and that the College and its managers have no independent legal existence apart from the Board. The Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County sustained the…