Johnson v. City of Detroit

We granted leave to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming summary disposition for the defendants on governmental immunity grounds. Plaintiffs decedent hanged himself on overhead bars in a police station holding cell that were exposed because wire mesh that had been placed over them to help prevent suicides had been tom away. This case presents the question whether the tom mesh constitutes a building defect within the meaning of the public building exception to the governmental tort liability act, MCL 691.1406; MSA 3.996(106). This Court has previously concluded that…