Dayberry v. City of East Helena
Montana Supreme Court
1DissentJustice Leaphart
¶34 I dissent. The District Court erred in concluding that Dayberry needed to call an expert on pool design and construction in order to establish a prima facie case of liability. Dayberry relies on the provisions of the ARMs as establishing maximum diving board lengths for pools of given depths. This Court erroneously concludes that, since the ARMs in question were adopted in 1985, some thirteen years after this pool was constructed, they have no application to the incident in question. Obviously, the Court is correct that 1985 ARMs have no application to the construction of the pool in…
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