Thomason v. Olive Branch Masonic Temple

On September 9, 1980, plaintiff’s decedent, his ten-year-old daughter, was apparently attacked, stabbed and murdered by a third party and her body was found on defendant’s property. The property consisted of a one-acre unimproved parcel of land adjacent to Crowley Park in Dearborn, Michigan. Plaintiff alleged that, because the boundary between defendant’s land and the adjoining park was not fenced or marked in any way, park users often wandered onto defendant’s land. The condition of the unfenced land included mounds of weed-covered dirt and patches of tall weeds and brush.

*739Plaintiff brought a…