Scharf v. Calvary Chapel of Temecula Valley
Plaintiff and appellant Dennis Scharf sued defendants and respondents Calvary Chapel of Temecula Valley (Calvary), Donald Coop,[1] and Gary Nelson for damages after he was injured while performing work at Calvary.[2] The present appeal flows from the trial court’s granting of defendants’ motions for summary judgment. We affirm the judgment as to Coop. We reverse the judgment entered in favor of Calvary and Nelson (the Church defendants).
Scharf was a parishioner of Calvary. Nelson was Calvary’s pastor. Calvary leased the premises for the church from Coop, trustee of the Coop Family Trust. In January 2005, Calvary was retrofitting audio/visual technology on its premises. Scharf, an audio/visual technician, volunteered “as part of his ministry†to install the necessary cables and wiring. In the process of doing so, he fell off the top of an unfinished wall.
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