Pichette v. Manistique Public Schools

*773O’Hara, J.

This is an appeal of right by plaintiff1 from an adverse summary judgment. Such a judgment, as the opinions of appellate courts in this state show, is becoming increasingly rara avis.

The case arises out of an injury to a minor plaintiff who was using a slide in the defendant’s playground which was immediately adjacent to the school proper. The record rests in part upon a stipulation of fact, and in part upon the testimonial record. The child was seriously and painfully injured. It cannot be gainsaid that absent the doctrine of governmental immunity defendant might well have been…