DeMarr v. Kansas City, Missouri, School District

LOWENSTEIN, Judge Presiding.

Appellant John DeMarr appeals the trial court’s grant of the motion to dismiss of respondent, School District of Kansas City, Missouri, and also the subsequent denial of appellant’s motion for leave to file his first amended petition. The reader will note, this appeal concerns only a count for breach of an employment contract with the respondent school district. Section 432.-070, RSMo 1986, infra. The bulk of his petition, and of the proposed amended petition, was in tort and ran afoul of the defense of sovereign immunity.

This case involves an employment contract…