FERRO v. SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X

No. 31807.

149 P.3d 813 (2006)

Anthony J. FERRO, an individual, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Respondent, v. The SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X, a priestly society maintaining it headquarters in Switzerland, The Society of Saint Pius X, Kansas City, Missouri, Inc., a foreign corporation maintaining its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, Immaculate Conception Chapel of the Society of St. Pius. X., Inc., an Idaho corporation, Defendants-Respondents, and Father James H. Doran, individually, Defendant-Respondent-Cross Appellant.

Supreme Court of Idaho, Moscow, September 2006 Term.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evans Keane LLP, Boise, for appellant. Jed W. Manwaring argued.

Paine Hamblen Coffin Brooke & Miller, Coeur d'Alene, for respondents. Patrick E. Miller argued.


EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding a parishioner damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress because of a priest's conduct. The statute of limitations had run before the lawsuit was filed, but the jury found that the defendants were equitably estopped from asserting it as a defense. Because the plaintiff did not proceed with due diligence once he knew or reasonably should have known that the alleged misrepresentations supporting...

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