Braden v. Workman

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a jury verdict and subsequent judgment of no cause of action entered in favor of defendants. Plaintiff also appeals from the trial court’s order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

On June 25, 1976, plaintiff, then a healthy 18-year-old man, ran toward the man-made lake at Lakeside Camp Park. People nearby heard a splash and then observed that plaintiff remained floating face-down in the water. Two of the observers, neither of them trained in first-aid, pulled plaintiff to shore and resuscitated him.…