ESTATE OF BUCKNER v. CITY OF LANSING

Docket No. 133772. COA No. 270455.

747 N.W.2d 231 (2008)

ESTATE OF Chantell BUCKNER, by its Personal Representative, Richard RASHID, and LaQuata Wright, Minor, by her Conservator, Michael J. Panek, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. CITY OF LANSING, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, and Estate of Luther Wampler, by its Personal Representative, Pamela Wampler, Defendant, Cross-Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellee, and Martha Wampler, Defendant, Cross-Plaintiff, and Morley S. Oates Post 701 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Defendant, Cross-Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

April 25, 2008.


On order of the Court, leave to appeal having been granted and the briefs and oral argument of the parties having been considered by the Court, we REVERSE in part the March 15, 2007 judgment of the Court of Appeals. MCR 7.302(G)(1). Under the doctrine of governmental immunity, MCL 691.1401 et seq., governmental agencies are entitled to immunity "for all tort liability whenever they are engaged in the exercise or discharge of a governmental function." Nawrocki...

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