MURDOCK v. HIGGINS

Docket No. 101976.

559 N.W.2d 639 (1997)

454 Mich. 46

Christopher MURDOCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles HIGGINS, Donna Jarvis, and Mark Kelley, Defendant-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silverman, Rodbard & Smith, P.C. by Michael C. Bingen, Kalamazoo, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Thomas R. Wheeker and Susan I. Leffler, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before the Entire Bench.


Opinion

WEAVER, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant places three issues before this Court. First, whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held defendant Higgins owed no duty to protect this plaintiff from reasonably foreseeable harm on these facts; second, whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury on Michigan's Child Protection Law, M.C.L. § 722.622; M.S.A. § 25.248(2); and, third, whether the...

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