BALLARD v. YPSILANTI TP.

Docket No. 173829.

549 N.W.2d 885 (1996)

216 Mich. App. 545

Sheniece BALLARD, Personal Representative of the Estate of Kassim Ballard, Dorothy J. Wilkes and Edna Reid, Personal Representatives of the Estate of Anthony Deon Wilkes, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TOWNSHIP OF YPSILANTI, Defendant-Appellant, and Joann Brinker and Dave Cooper, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided May 10, 1996, at 9:25 a.m.

Released for Publication June 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. by Patrick Burkett, Southfield, and Thomas L. Mulcahy, Southfield, for Sheniece Ballard.

Joseph D. Welton, Detroit, for Dorothy J. Wilkes.

Garan, Lucow, Miller, Seward, Cooper & Becker, P.C. by Rosalind Rochkind and Thomas F. Myers, Detroit, for Ypsilanti Township.

Before WAHLS, P.J., and HOOD and CLEMENTS, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant Ypsilanti Township appeals as of right from the jury verdicts in favor of plaintiffs in this case involving governmental immunity. We reverse.

On July 4, 1991, plaintiffs' decedents, Kassim Ballard, age eleven, and Anthony Wilkes, age twelve, were taken with a group of boys to Ford Lake Park in Ypsilanti by two adults, Haratio Blacksher and Veronica Mitchell. Although Mitchell told the boys not to go swimming, Blacksher allowed them to...

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