Sullivan v. First Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

This is a law action to recover for personal injury from a fall in defendant-church. Following trial and verdict for plaintiff judgment was entered for defendant notwithstanding the verdict. Plaintiff has appealed.

Two grounds of defendant’s motion for judgment were sustained. First, that defendant was relieved from liability for negligence of its employees by the doctrine of charitable immunity. Second, plaintiff as a matter of law was not an invitee to defendant-church. Other grounds of the motion were over ruled. Plaintiff assigns as error the ruling on each of these two grounds. We hold…