Ward v. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining to apply the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur and explaining “no expert testimony by affidavit or otherwise was offered to establish that [the child’s] injury could not have been caused by his fall in the grass while running”
• not common knowledge that a four-year-old child can run and fall and break his femur in the absence of someone else’s negligence
• “[T]he fact that an accident occurred is not enough to permit an inference of negligence.”
• “[T]he fact that an accident occurred is not enough to permit an inference of negligence.”
• “[T]he fact that an accident occurred is not enough to permit an inference of negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).