Forche v. Gieseler

Plaintiff appeals as of right from an order of the Jackson Circuit Court granting defendants’ motion for summary disposition.

Plaintiff was eighteen years of age on September 5, 1983, and while visiting the defendants’ cottage as a social guest on Pleasant Lake in Jackson County, Michigan, he dove head first from a dock extended into the lake from defendants’ property. His head hit the lake bottom at a depth of three feet and the subsequent injury rendered him a quadriplegic. On April 28, 1986, plaintiff filed a three-count complaint alleging willful and wanton misconduct, gross negligence,…