Legal Opinion
Kimberly Phillips v. The Marist Society of Washington Province
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1996No. 95-2583PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Kimberly Phillips alleges that she is a third-party beneficiary to an implied contract between the Marist Society and one of its priests. We conclude that Phillips has not introduced sufficient evidence to show the existence of the implied contract that she has alleged, and we affirm the order of the District Court 1 granting summary judgment to the Society.
While serving as a chaplain in the United States Air Force, Timothy Sugrue, a Marist priest, sexually assaulted Phillips, then a girl of seven to eight years of age. Years later Phillips sued both Sugrue and the…
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