BRIDGEPORT – A New Haven women who fell over a chair during a crowded funeral service has won a $1 million lawsuit against the East End church.

A six-member Superior Court jury deliberated about two hours before finding the English Chapel Cathedral of Miracles negligently caused the injuries suffered by Glenora King and ordered the Wilmot Avenue church to pay her $51,000 in economic damages and $953,424 in non-economic damages.

“It was an extraordinarily attentive jury that listened to all the evidence and the judge’s instruction before arriving at the appropriate verdict,” King’s lawyer, Kevin Walsh, said later.

Church officials did not return calls for comment.

During the trial before Superior Court Judge Edward F. Stodolink, the now 76-year-old King testified that on Dec. 29, 2011, she was attending the funeral mass at the church for the Bishop Walter Joyner when she fell over a chair that had been placed in the church aisle.

Witnesses said at the time there was standing room only in the church with more than 300 people in attendance well beyond the capacity set by the city’s fire marshal.

King, who had only recently retired from Yale University where she worked in food services, suffered a fractured hip in the fall.

She testified she ended up with $50,000 in medical bill and has a permanent limp as a result of her injuries.

She told the jury that before the accident she had been considering going back to work but can no longer do so.