DINGER v. DNR

Docket No. 70877.

147 Mich. App. 164 (1985)

383 N.W.2d 606

DINGER v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vlachos, Jenkins & Hurley (by John R. Hurley and James E. Vander Roest), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Wallace T. Hart, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.

Before: R.M. MAHER, P.J., and BRONSON and G.R. McDONALD, JJ.


R.M. MAHER, P.J.

On August 14, 1977, plaintiff, then a healthy 18-year-old man, dove from the southeast abutment of the 118th Avenue Bridge in Allegan County into the Swan Creek Pond. The dive proved disastrous, as plaintiff felt his head strike something in the water and heard his neck "pop". Since that date, plaintiff has been a quadriplegic.

Plaintiff brought this action, and a similar one against the Allegan Board of County Road Commissioners, seeking...

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