Stayton v. American Legion

By JUDGE JAMES E. KULP

Plaintiff has filed suit alleging injuries received when she slipped and fell while working in an amusement booth at the defendant’s Labor Day carnival. The defendant has filed a Plea of Charitable Immunity. Argument has been heard by the Court, and each party has filed an extensive memorandum in support of his respective positions. The Court now having maturely considered the issue sustains the defendant’s Plea of Charitable Immunity.

At the hearing before the Court, the plaintiff conceded that the American Legion, Battlefield Post No. 144 was a charitable prganization.…