Downey Memorial Church Interdenominational, Inc. v. Knowlton ex rel. Knowlton

OWEN, Chief Judge.

In this personal injury action wherein the minor plaintiff and his parent recovered a judgment, the sole issue on appeal is the applicability of the attractive nuisance doctrine.

*550Twelve-year-old Bruce Knowlton lived with his family across the street from the Downey Memorial Church. The latter used part of its property as a playground area. Bruce, together with his brother, Brent, and a friend, Robert Fensler, were playing in the Knowlton yard about 9 :00 at night, when they decided to go over to the church playground, it being lighted and in use by other children whose…