Heffner v. Montgomery County

GARRITY, Judge.

This appeal presents us with the question of whether Montgomery County (appellee) may successfully assert a defense of governmental immunity to a claim for injuries sustained by Janice E. Heffner (appellant) 1 when she slipped and fell on the lobby floor of the Montgomery County Judicial Center (courthouse). In the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, appellant argued that appellee implicitly waived its immunity relative to the courthouse by its enactment of the Montgomery County Building Code. Mont. County Code, § 8 ei seq. Appellee, of course, contended that the enactment of…