CHRISTIE v. BD. OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY REGENTS

Docket No. 59, Calendar No. 48,861.

364 Mich. 202 (1961)

111 N.W.2d 30

CHRISTIE v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foster, Foster, Campbell & Lindemer (Theodore W. Swift and Edmund E. Shepherd, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Burke, Burke & Ryan, for defendant.


BLACK, J.

Comes the intruder spoilsport as the legislative and judicial branches continue their gambol o'er the field of sovereign immunity. Here the recurrent problem — what to do with another aspect of such immunity — cannot be buck-lateraled to the legislature. By the Constitution that august body has been rendered ineligible to receive, in today's game, any kind of a pass from the judicial branch.

Plaintiff, at 7 years of age, sues for personal...

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