Gordon v. City of Winchester

By Judge John E. Wetsel, Jr.

This case came before the Court on the demurrer and special plea in bar of the defendants, the City of Winchester and the Winchester Police Department. The Court had previously sustained the Demurrer and Special Plea of the City of Winchester based on sovereign immunity of the City as it applied to all counts of the motion for judgment except that set forth in Count n, which is an allegation that the City’s police officers in the course óf a high speed chase were grossly negligent, and the issue presently before the Court is whether the City and the police…