Legal Opinion
Brewer v. Perrin
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided March 5, 1984No. Docket 68478PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHood, J.
In this action, plaintiff sued several defendants as the result of the death of her son, Gary Catron, who killed himself while confined at the Southgate City Jail. Plaintiff appeals as of right from a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants Perrin, Haber, Tims and Sadowski, 1 all of whom are employees of the Southgate Police Department.
At about 3:30 p.m., April 27, 1979, 15-year-old Gary Catron came home drunk and promptly began to fight with his twin brother Terry. After Gary armed himself with a butcher knife, plaintiff, their mother, telephoned the Southgate police for help.
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