REARDON v. DEP'T OF MENTAL HEALTH

Docket Nos. 80362, 80549, (Calendar Nos. 8-9).

430 Mich. 398 (1988)

424 N.W.2d 248

REARDON v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH SCHAFER v. ETHRIDGE

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven E. Ford for plaintiff Reardon.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Richard D. Toth), for plaintiffs Schafer.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General; and George L. McCargar and Thomas R. Wheeker, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants in Reardon; and George L. McCargar, and Mark S. Meadows, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants in Schafer.

Amici Curiae:

Eileen K. Jennings for Central Michigan University Board of Trustees.

Kenneth A. McKanders for Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents.

Thomas A. Butcher for Grand Valley State College Board of Control.

Michael J. Kiley for Michigan State University Board of Trustees.

Libner, VanLeuven & Kortering, P.C. (by John A. Braden), for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

John D. Ketelhut for University of Michigan Regents.

Patricia E. Eames for Wayne State University Board of Governors.


RILEY, C.J.

The issue in these consolidated cases is whether the public building exception to governmental immunity is applicable to the facts presented. We are persuaded that the Legislature intended the building exception to apply where the injury is occasioned by a physical defect or dangerous condition of the building itself. As neither case involved an injury caused by the physical condition of the building, we hold that the public building exception is inapplicable...

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