Ziccardi v. School District

Opinion by

Judge Barry,

This appeal follows an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which sustained preliminary objections filed by the City of Philadelphia (City) and the School District of Philadelphia (School District) and dismissed, with prejudice, the complaint filed by plaintiffs, appellants herein.1

On October 17, 1980, George Ziccardi, a student at Bok Vocational High School, a public school in Philadelphia, was attacked on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the school by persons other than the defendant and then was shot by defendant, Clarence Everett, while on…