Hardgrave v. State Ex Rel. State Highway Department

The appeal involves the rule of governmental immunity from tort liability. The claimant (appellant) asks that we abolish the doctrine by judicial act, asserting all of the reasons expressed in Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District, 55 Cal.2d 211, 11 Cal.Rptr. 89, 359 P.2d 457, and particularly relying upon the recent decision of this court in Rice v. Clark County, 79 Nev. 253, 382 P.2d 605. The state’s (respondent’s) opposing view is founded on two premises. Initially it argues that Nev. Const, art. 4, § 22 (“Provision may be made by general law for bringing suit against the state as to all…