Walker v. Mathews

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, Robert Bailey, was in charge of the activity. To assist in supervising the youngsters, Bailey secured twenty-four volunteers to act as…