Roberts v. Wesley Foundation

By Judge William L. Person, Jr.

After consideration of the pleadings, evidence, oral arguments, and counsels’ briefs, the court finds the following regarding the plaintiff’s claim of negligence. This opinion addresses the question of whether the court should grant defendants’ motion for summary judgment based upon the doctrine of charitable immunity. This determination rests upon whether the Wesley Foundation and the Peninsula Agency on Aging, Inc., are charitable institutions and correspondingly whether Geraldine Roberts was a beneficiary of the organizations’ bounty at the time of her injury?