Lyon v. Tumwater Evangelical Free Church

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing an action for damages arising out of an accident.

In 1932 the Tumwater Evangelical Free Church was incorporated as a nonprofit, religious organization under the predecessor of RCW 24.08, providing for the incorporation of educational, religious, benevolent, or charitable societies, and has continued since that time to operate as such. The church operated a bus every Sunday in order to transport children, without charge, to and from Sunday school. The driver of the bus, who was one of the original incorporators of the church organization, and who, at…