Carlisi v. City of Marysville

Legal availability of the defense of governmental immunity from suit for damages resulting from the torts of a city’s agents and employees is the question before us. Plaintiff appeals from judgments non obstante veredicto against him, granted on the grounds of such immunity after jury verdicts in his favor.

Plaintiff’s decedents in these 2 combined cases were his daughters, 12 and 15 years old, respectively, at the time they were drowned on or adjacent to property of defendant city. The property, a city park, fronted on the St. Clair river. On a portion of it, near the river, is located…