Mazyck v. Caribbean Lawn, Inc.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Barbara Mazyck, individually, and as personal representative of the estate of Jamone Williams, from an adverse final summary judgment entered in a wrongful death action brought against the defendant Caribbean Lawn, Inc. We reverse.

It appears from the record that the plaintiffs decedent, a minor, was killed while playing a game of hide-and-seek in an area of a public housing project where children frequently play. The plaintiffs decedent fell while attempting to climb an umbrella tree and became impaled on a “spear-like” protrusion in a shrub beneath the…