DAMPIER v. COUNTY OF WAYNE

Docket No. 202200.

592 N.W.2d 809 (1999)

233 Mich. App. 714

Johnnie B. DAMPIER, Senida Merritt, Beverly Jasper Williams, Warna Nelson, Larry Dampier and Robert Williams, Plaintiff-Appellants, v. Grace Hospital Corporation, d/b/a Grace Northwest Hospital, and Stinson Funeral Home, Inc., Defendants, and CHARTER COUNTY OF WAYNE, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided February 5, 1999, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication April 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steinberg, O'Connor, Paton & Burns, P.L.L.C. (by Richard L. Steinberg), Detroit, for the plaintiffs.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Corporation Counsel, and Ellen E. Mason, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for the defendant.

Before: MARKEY, P.J., and SAWYER and WHITBECK, JJ.


WHITBECK, J.

The trial court granted summary disposition with respect to all elements of this case, basically on the ground of governmental immunity. Plaintiffs appeal as of right on the grounds that both the statutory public hospital and common-law exceptions to governmental immunity apply to their negligence claim and that they stated claims for violations of the Michigan Constitution for which governmental immunity is...

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