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JOHNSON v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 105891, Calendar No. 4.

579 N.W.2d 895 (1998)

Barbara JOHNSON, personal representative of the estate of James T. Johnson, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Detroit Police Department, and Officer Ralph Heatlie, jointly and severally, Defendants-Appellees,

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 16, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic, Heilmann & Domol by Richard E. Shaw, Southfield, for plaintiff.

City of Detroit Law Department by Brenda M. Miller, Detroit, for defendant.

Opinion

MALLETT, Chief Justice.

We granted leave to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming summary disposition for the defendants on governmental immunity grounds. Plaintiff's decedent hanged himself on overhead bars in a police station holding cell that were exposed because wire mesh that had been placed over them to help prevent suicides had been torn away. This case presents the question whether the torn mesh constitutes a building...

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