Court Opinion

ID: 9528800
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:44:09.073176+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:20.729065
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice McWilliams
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion and would simply add these few comments of my own.
As I understand the cases, in Colorado the doctrine of so-called charitable immunity means only that charitable trust funds are immune from levy and execution and the doctrine as heretofore announced by this court does not mean that a charitable institution, as such, is *46immune from suit or from having a judgment rendered against it in a tort action, for example. See St. Luke’s Hospital Association v. Long, 125 Colo. 25, 240 P.2d 917, 31 A.L.R. 2d 1120.
Hence, the doctrine of charitable immunity as it exists in Colorado is ordinarily no ground for a dismissal under R.C.P. Colo. 12 of an action brought against any such charitable institution. See Michard v. Myron Stratton Home, 144 Colo. 251, 355 P.2d 1078.
However, in the instant case under the particular terms and provisions of the stipulation between the parties, the position of Hemenway, as I understand it, is that he desires and asks that his action be dismissed unless this court is prepared to overrule our many prior decisions holding that charitable trust funds are immune from levy and execution. I would not overrule these several prior decisions on this particular matter and accordingly, under this circumstance, I would, and do, hold that the trial court committed no error in dismissing Hemenway’s complaint.