HORACE v. CITY OF PONTIAC

Docket Nos. 104838, 105775, Calendar Nos. 2-3.

575 N.W.2d 762 (1998)

456 Mich. 744

Denise HORACE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF PONTIAC, Defendant-Appellant. Madelene ADAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Michigan, Michigan DEPARTMENT OF STATE HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Gricius, P.C. by Jeffrey W. Rentschler, Mt. Clemens, for Plaintiff-Appellee in Horace.

Bernstein & Bernstein, P.C. by Thomas B. Calcatera, Southfield, for Plaintiff-Appellee in Adams.

Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, P.C. by Joseph Nimako and T. Joseph Seward, Livonia, for Defendant in Horace.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Brenda E. Turner and Vincent Leone, Assistant Attorneys General, Lansing, for defendant in Adams.


Opinion

TAYLOR, Justice.

We granted leave to appeal in these consolidated cases to determine whether the public building exception to governmental immunity1 applies to slip and fall injuries arising from a dangerous or defective condition existing in an area adjacent to an entrance or exit, but nevertheless still not part of a public building. We are persuaded that the Legislature did not intend this exception to the broad grant...

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