BALLARD v. YPSILANTI TWP

Docket No. 173829.

216 Mich. App. 545 (1996)

BALLARD v. YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 10, 1996, at 9:25 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Joseph D. Welton, for Dorothy J. Wilkes.

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

Before: WAHLS, P.J., and HOOD and M.E. 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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