WALKER v. MATHEWS

No. 67528.

775 P.2d 273 (1988)

Kenneth WALKER, Administrator of the Estate of Chad Crawford Walker, a minor, deceased, Appellant, v. John MATHEWS, Carla Arnold, Donald Harnage, Steve Odaffer, Kimberly Underwood, Robbie Webb, Kerry Bural, Debra Bural (now Boling), James Dover, and Cindy Seitz, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected December 16, 1988.

As Corrected July 5, 1989.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Norman, Muskogee, for appellant.

Williams, Clark, Baker & Earl, P.A. by Roger R. Williams, and Joseph F. Clark, Jr., Tulsa, for appellees John Mathews, Carla Arnold, Donald Harnage, Steve Odaffer, Kimberly Underwood and Robbie Webb.

Wilburn, Masterson & Holden by Ray H. Wilburn, Melvin C. Weiman, and M. Cristina Romero, Tulsa, for appellees Kerry Bural, Debra Bural (now Boling), James Dover and Cindy Seitz.


HODGES, Justice.

The central issue in this appeal is whether defendant chaperones, in their individual capacity, owed a legal duty to decedent who drowned at a church overnight lake outing. We hold they did not and summary judgment for defendants was therefore proper.

On June 16-17, 1984, Eastern Heights Baptist Church, Muskogee, Oklahoma (the Church), sponsored an overnight outing for children grades seven through twelve at Lake Fort Gibson. The youth minister...

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