Marilyn Dedeaux v. Lake Caroline Owners Association, Inc.

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Eugune Owen crashed his speed boat into Russell Guymon’s pontoon boat, injuring Guymon as well as fellow passenger Marilyn Dedeaux. Dedeaux and Guy-mon blame their injuries not just on Owen, but also their neighborhood association, which owns the private lake where the boat wreck occurred. But the neighborhood association was not the insurer of Dedeaux and Guymon’s safety and cannot be held strictly liable simply because an injury occurred on the lake. Instead, the association only had a duty to protect De-deaux and Guymon from reasonably foreseeable injuries at…