Brown v. Fountain Hill School District

Olly Neal, Judge.

On September 30, 1993, John Brown was a student at Fountain Hill High School, when he amputated the fingers on his right hand while operating a table saw in the school’s vocational-agriculture shop class. John’s parents, Hughey and Teresa Brown, filed a negligence action against the individual appellees, because of the removal of the table saw’s blade safety guard by appellee Hal Gibson. An action was brought against the school district based upon the theory of respondeat superior. Appellees filed a motion to dismiss appellants’ complaint based upon the statutory immunity…