Montedonico v. Mt. Gillion Baptist Church

*1014GRIFFIS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Edward Montedonico, trustee for Michael Jefferies’s bankruptcy estate, filed suit against Mount Gillion Baptist Church in the Circuit Court of Panola County. He alleged that the church had negligently provided Jefferies, an independent contractor, with a defective ladder that caused Jefferies’s injuries. The circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of the church, and the trustee now appeals. The trustee argues the circuit court erred when it found that the danger was inherent to Jefferies’s work and that Jefferies had assumed the risk. We agree;…