BERGER v. CITY OF BERKLEY

Docket Nos. 31382, 77-716.

87 Mich. App. 361 (1978)

275 N.W.2d 2

BERGER v. CITY OF BERKLEY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacey & Jones (by John L. Salter), for plaintiffs.

Lakin & Worsham, P.C., for defendants City of Oak Park and R. Howell.

John N. Highland, for defendants Bloomfield Township and Bloomfield Township Police Department.

Bernard Girard, for defendants City of Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Hills Police Department.

Conklin & Maloney, for defendants City of Clawson, Clawson Police Department, Lathrup Village, Lathrup Village Police Department, Farmington, Farmington Police Department, City of Novi, and City of Novi Police Department.

Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr & Heaphy, P.C., for defendants City of Southfield, Southfield Police Department, Daniel Mead and James Gutenburr.

Johnson, Campbell & Moesta, for defendants City of Troy and Troy Police Department.

Harvey, Kruse & Westen, P.C., for defendants City of Huntington Woods, Huntington Woods Police Department, Huntington Woods Department of Public Safety, Village of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Police Department and Officer Danaher.

Dice, Sweeney, Sullivan & Feikens, P.C., for defendants City of Madison Heights and Madison Heights Police Department.

Stewart, O'Reilly, Cornell, Donovan, Lascoe & Rancilio, P.C., for defendants City of Ferndale, Ferndale Police Department and Officer Kellogg.

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Waters, Stanczyk & Pedersen (by Joseph V. Walker and Jeannette A. Paskin), for defendants City of Berkley, Berkley Police Department, City of Birmingham and Birmingham Police Department.

Davidson, Gotshall, Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch & Clark (by Wayne C. Gardner), for defendant Village of Bingham Farms.

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


ALLEN, J.

This author and Judge BRONSON, who writes separately, concur in the opinion of Judge T.M. BURNS except that portion thereof holding that the defense of "governmental immunity" does not apply to the municipal defendants themselves. We simply cannot agree that the police training exercise being conducted when plaintiff was struck in the face by rice pellets was not a governmental function. Therefore, we would affirm the grant of summary judgment in favor of...

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