042304P.pdf   08/05/2005  Lamoni K. Riordan  v.  Corp. of the Presidi
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2304
                          and No:  04-2392
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with M. Arnold and Bowman, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - torts. In action by child injured when his father ran over his 
   foot while mowing grass for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day 
   Saints, the church did not share the father's parental immunity, and 
   parental immunity did not bar the child's respondeat superior claim 
   against the church; evidence did not demonstrate any type of collusion 
   between the parent and child, and the application of the doctrine's 
   protection was not necessary to prevent fraud and collusion; father's 
   actions could not be considered the intervening cause of the accident as 
   his negligence stemmed directly from the church' failure to train and 
   supervise him properly; in that connection, the jury verdict established 
   not only negligence and causation, but the forseeability that the failure to 
   train and supervise would lead directly to injury; cross-appeal on the 
   adequacy of the $1.18 million verdict rejected as the district court did not 
   abuse its almost unassailable discretion in denying the motion for new 
   trial based on the claim that the amount awarded was against the weight 
   of the evidence.