Court Opinion

ID: 9749226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:28:36.751084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:45.308409
License: Public Domain

Concurring Opinion by
Mr. Justice Eagen:
I join in the excellent opinion of Brother Jones, but am constrained to add the following comment due to the factual situation this case presents.
*108A school district is both constitutionally and legislatively an arm of the Commonwealth itself. See, Pennsylvania Constitution of 1873, Art. X, §1, and the Act of March 10, 1949, P. L. 30, §1 et seq., as amended, 24 P.S. §1-101 et seq. (Supp. 1965). As such, the defendant school district is shielded by the sovereign immunity of the Commonwealth, as well as the doctrine of governmental immunity. For this Court to decree that the Commonwealth itself is no longer immune from tort liability might well constitute an encroachment upon the prerogatives of the General Assembly, and as such be violative of the Separation of Powers Doctrine inherent in our form of government. See, Wilson v. Phila. School Dist., 328 Pa. 225, 195 A. 90 (1937), and Bailey v. Waters, 308 Pa. 309, 162 A. 819 (1932).