SULLIVAN v. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WATERLOO

No. 52354.

152 N.W.2d 628 (1967)

Mrs. Esther SULLIVAN, Appellant, v. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WATERLOO, Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 31, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore T. Duffield and James A. Lorentzen, Des Moines, for appellant.

Swisher, Cohrt, Swisher, Finch & McCann, Waterloo, for appellee.


GARFIELD, Chief Justice.

This is a law action to recover for personal injury from a fall in defendant church. Following trial and verdict for plaintiff judgment was entered for defendant notwithstanding the verdict. Plaintiff has appealed.

Two grounds of defendant's motion for judgment were sustained. First, that defendant was relieved from liability for negligence of its employees by the doctrine of charitable immunity. Second, plaintiff as a matter of law...

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