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WILLIAMSON v. DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH

Docket No. 101129.

176 Mich. App. 752 (1989)

440 N.W.2d 97

WILLIAMSON v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 1, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin, O'Hare, Helveston & Waldman, P.C. (by David K. Barnes, Jr.), for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George L. McCargar and Gary L. Finkbeiner, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant.

Before: SULLIVAN, P.J., and MURPHY and M. WARSHAWSKY, JJ.

MURPHY, J.

Defendant appeals as of right from the lower court's judgment in plaintiffs' favor. Plaintiffs prevailed in their wrongful death action brought against defendant pursuant to the building exception to governmental immunity. We affirm.

Plaintiffs' decedent was a mildly retarded seventeen-year-old who suffered from uncontrolled and frequent epileptic seizures. Decedent was originally admitted to defendant...

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