Busch v. Hoffmeyer

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from a decision of the Washtenaw Circuit Court denying plaintiffs’ motion to set aside the acceptance of a mediation award and the subsequent judgment.

This case arose out of the February 6, 1983, drowning of Robert Murphy, Jr., then seventeen years old, when a car in which he was a passenger broke through the ice on Mill Lake in the Waterloo Recreation Area. The driver of the car, Paul Hoffmeyer, had been "doing doughnuts” on the ice when the car began to break through the ice. Hoffmeyer and two other passengers were able to reach solid ice; the decedent Murphy…