Case Title: Winfield v. State

Citation: 172 Vt. 591, 779 A.2d 649

Docket Number: 99-524

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

Document:
Winfield v. State (99-524); 172 Vt. 591; 779 A.2d 649

[Filed 08-Jun-2001]

                                 ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 1999-524

                             JANUARY TERM, 2001

Carol Winfield	                       }	APPEALED FROM:
                                       }
                                       }
     v.	                               }	Chittenden Superior Court
                                       }	
State of Vermont, et al.	       }
                                       }	DOCKET NO. S0989-98 CnC

                                                Trial Judge: Matthew I. Katz 

             In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       Plaintiff Carol Winfield appeals from a superior court judgment
  dismissing her claims against  defendants  State of Vermont, Allen Elser,
  Roger Whitcomb, John Klauzenberg, Richard Hislop and  Robert Rook for
  failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under V.R.C.P.
  12(b)(6).   Plaintiff contends the court erred in determining that: (1)
  tort claims against the individual  defendants were barred by the doctrine
  of official immunity; (2) tort claims against the State were  barred by the
  doctrine of sovereign immunity; and (3) claims for monetary damages and
  declaratory  relief premised on violations of the Vermont Constitution were
  barred by the availability of adequate  alternative remedies.  We affirm.   

       Since it is here on dismissal, the factual circumstances are those
  well pleaded in the original  complaint.  See Richards v. Town of Norwich,
  169 Vt. 44, 48-49,