BUCKHOLZ v. LEVEILLE

Docket No. 11051.

37 Mich. App. 166 (1971)

194 N.W.2d 427

BUCKHOLZ v. LEVEILLE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown & Brown, for defendants.

Before: FITZGERALD, P.J., and BRONSON and T.M. BURNS, JJ.


T.M. BURNS, J.

Courts must stand prepared to protect the rights of all citizens, including teenagers. Denying a teen-aged litigant access to our courts simply because he happens to be a minor not only tends to lessen the confidence of young people in our legal system but adds credence to the existence of the "generation gap". And it may even help widen that gap.

In the instant case plaintiff, an eleventh-grade student at Engadine High School in Engadine, Michigan...

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