Richardson v. Jackson County

Louis Allen, Jr., drowned in or near the public swimming area at Vandercook County Park on Vandercook Lake. Near two buoys marking the swimming area there was a drop-off in the lake bottom. Divers retrieved the decedent’s body in about fifteen feet of water several yards past the buoys.

Plaintiff, the personal representative of decedent’s estate, alleges that defendant Jackson County, the owner of the park, and defendant Summit Township, the park’s operator, acted wilfully and wantonly by creating and setting aside a swimming area containing a dangerous drop-off without proper warnings.…