Boggs v. Board of Education

Neely, Justice:

This appeal requires us to reexamine the doctrine of governmental immunity as it relates to county commissions and county boards of education. The case arise,s from an accident in which an infant child fell from a footbridge while traveling to school in Clay County. The infant, Frances Alice Boggs, and her father, Dennis S. Boggs, as next friend, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Clay County against the County Court of Clay County1 and the Board of Education of Clay County, both of which governmental bodies, it was alleged, maintained control of the footbridge. The circuit…