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RITCHIE-GAMESTER v. CITY OF BERKLEY

Docket No. 109633., Calendar No. 3.

597 N.W.2d 517 (1999)

461 Mich. 73

Jill RITCHIE-GAMESTER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CITY OF BERKLEY and D. Hendricks, Defendants/Third-Party Plaintiffs, and Halley Mann and Douglas K. Mann II, as Guardian Ad Litem for Halley Mann, Defendants/Third-Party Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schreier & Weiss, P.C. (by Sherwin Schreier, Mark Schreier, and Alyce M. Haas), Royal Oak, for plaintiff-appellee.

Becker, Lanctot, McCutcheon, Schoolmaster, Taylor & Hom (by Sarah N. Wildgen), Bloomfield Hills; Gross, Nemeth & Silverman, P.L.C., of counsel (by Mary T. Nemeth), Detroit, for defendants-appellants.

Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster, P.C. (by Mark A. Bush), Lansing, for Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, Inc.

Opinion

YOUNG, J.

We granted leave in this case to consider the appropriate standard of care for those involved in recreational activities. We conclude that coparticipants in recreational activities owe each other a duty not to act recklessly. Because the trial court properly concluded that plaintiff could not show that defendant violated this standard, we reverse the Court of Appeals and reinstate the trial court's grant of summary disposition for defendant...

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