Case Name: Constance Robyn Brovey v. Commonwealth of Virginia et al.
Court: Clarke County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1987-07-31
Citations: 11 Va. Cir. 85
Docket Number: Case No. (Law) 2044
Parties: Constance Robyn Brovey v. Commonwealth of Virginia et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Circuit Court Opinions
Volume: 11
Pages: 85–85

Head Matter:
CIRCUIT COURT OF CLARKE COUNTY
Constance Robyn Brovey v. Commonwealth of Virginia et al.
July 31, 1987
Case No. (Law) 2044

Opinion:
By JUDGE ROBERT K. WOLTZ
For the reasons set out in the brief of the Defendant School Board members, Superintendent of Schools, School Principal and Vice-Principal, their Plea of Sovereign Immunity and Public Servant Immunity is sustained. I am satisfied that a county school board is not a "state agency" under the Virginia Tort Claims Act and consequently its Superintendent, Principal and Vice-Principal are not officers, employees or agents of such an agency. With particular reference to the Defendant Vice-Principal, just as the Principal was found to be the "counterpart" of the Superintendent of Schools in Banks v. Sellers, 224 Va. 168 (1982), so I find the Vice-Principal to be the "counterpart" of the Principal.
From what has been said above, the demurrer of the Commonwealth to the Motion for Judgment, the demurrer being based on the concept that the local School Board is not a "state agency" within the meaning of the Act is sustained.
As a consequence of the foregoing, the Commonwealth, the School Board and its members, the Superintendent of Schools, the Principal and Vice-Principal of the school are dismissed as parties Defendant.