Wagner v. State

WILKINS, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 Tracy and Robert Wagner seek review of the court of appeals’ ruling that the trial court properly granted a rule 12(b)(6) motion dismissing their suit against the State. The Wagners’ suit, which sought recovery for injuries Mrs. Wagner sustained when a mentally handicapped man attacked her while he was in the custody of state employees, was dismissed at the trial court, and affirmed at the court of appeals, on the ground that the attack constituted a battery, a tort for which the State has retained immunity from suit. The Wagners then petitioned this court…