CLARK v. MOORE MEM. UNITED METH. CHURCH

No. 58236.

538 So.2d 760 (1989)

Lydia C. CLARK v. MOORE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, a Religious Society, and the Board of Trustees of Moore Memorial United Methodist Church.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom P. Calhoun, Greenwood, for appellant.

William Liston, Liston & Lancaster, Winona, Jimmy B. Reynolds, Jr., Steen, Reynolds, Dalehite & Currie, Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether Lydia C. Clark (Clark), the pastor's wife and a member of the defendant church, Moore Memorial United Methodist (Moore Memorial), was an invitee on the day she slipped and fell after attending a church function. The trial court determined that Clark was, as a matter of law, a licensee and granted to Moore Memorial summary judgment on the issue of Clark's status. Thereafter, the Circuit...

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