Clontz v. St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church

CALABRIA, Judge.

On 24 October 1998, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (“St. Mark’s”) held their annual Halloween festival on a farm owned by H. Allen Sloop (“Allen Sloop”). As part of the festivities, St. Mark’s organized a hayride for the younger members or guests attending the event. Both children and adults rode through the woods and around the farm on a flatbed trailer pulled by a farm tractor driven by Allen Sloop’s son, Harry A. Sloop (“Harry Sloop”).

Millette Clontz (“Clontz”) was not a member of St. Mark’s but was invited to help with the hayride by standing in the woods and…