Guillaume by Guillaume v. Staum, No. 13709
| Court | Supreme Court of South Dakota |
| Writing for the Court | FOSHEIM |
| Citation | 328 N.W.2d 259 |
| Parties | 8 Ed. Law Rep. 487 Linda Lee GUILLAUME, by Ileen GUILLAUME, Guardian of Linda Lee Guillaume, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Darmon STAUM, George Donnelly, Charles Donnelly, Steve Taylor, Paula Boilard, and Elk Point Public School District, Defendants and Appellees. . Considered on Briefs |
| Docket Number | No. 13709 |
| Decision Date | 19 November 1982 |
Page 259
Lee Guillaume, Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
Darmon STAUM, George Donnelly, Charles Donnelly, Steve
Taylor, Paula Boilard, and Elk Point Public School
District, Defendants and Appellees.
Decided Dec. 28, 1982.
Page 260
R. Scott Rhinehart, N. Sioux City, and James R. Minick, Elk Point, for plaintiff and appellant.
James Doyle, Delvin N.J. Welter, Yankton, John Simko, Sioux Falls, John Murphy, Elk Point, and Lyle Wirt, Sioux Falls, for defendants and appellees.
FOSHEIM, Chief Justice.
Linda Lee Guillaume (appellant) brought this action in tort against the Elk Point School District and Paula Boilard and Steve Taylor (appellees), as its employees, for personal injuries received while under Ms. Boilard's and Mr. Taylor's supervision. Appellant was a member of the Elk Point School band and was injured while engaged in a required, supervised act: picking corn to raise money for the school band. Appellees' motion for summary judgment was granted on the basis of our recent decision in Merrill v. Birhanzel, 310 N.W.2d 522, 523 (S.D.1981), wherein we said, "No permission to sue the defendants (a school district and its employees) in tort on this type of action had then been granted by the legislature. Appellants cite no such statute nor are we aware of any. Absent such permission no suit could prevail." (Emphasis added, footnotes deleted).
Appellant raises a number of issues on appeal. However, this court granted her petition for intermediate appeal based on her statement therein that the only issue was the effect of SDCL 13-5-1. Accordingly, our review is confined to that public interest question. We affirm.
Appellant contends we erred in Birhanzel by overlooking SDCL 13-5-1, which states:
Any territory heretofore or hereafter organized for the express purpose of operating not less than a twelve-year school program and governed by a duly elected school board is defined to be a school district. It may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, purchase, hold, and use personal and real property for school purposes, and sell and dispose of the same. (Emphasis added).
SDCL 13-5-1 has been codified in essentially its present form since 1887. CL 1887 Sec. 1811. The import of SDCL 13-5-1 is to confer the powers necessary and incident to contracting. This statute, which...
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