Albritton v. Neighborhood Centers Ass'n for Child Development

The issue presented by this case is whether an organization enjoys immunity from liability for damages in tort merely because it is organized for charitable purposes. Because this court can no longer discover any valid, rational reasons for retaining charitable immunity this doctrine is hereby abolished.

A preliminary question is raised as to whether NCA is, in fact, a charity and able to raise the defense of charitable immunity at all. Albritton contends *211that NCA is a far different organization than the purely eleemosynary institution envisioned at the time charitable immunity was…