ROLAND v. CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE


301 S.W.2d 574 (1957)

Clifford ROLAND, Appellant, v. CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE, a Corporation, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ephraim K. Lawrence, Jr., Theodore Wurmser, Lawrence & Duvall, Edward L. Phillips, Louisville, and Williams & Williams, Asheville, N. C., for appellant.

Robert T. Burke, Louisville, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The case calls for a consideration of the exemption of eleemosynary or charitable organizations from liability for torts. The reappraisal of the doctrine and of our broad statements of absolute exemption is confined to the unusual combination of facts of this case.

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