Taylor v. City of Detroit

This is a wrongful death action. Plaintiff appeals as of right from an order denying his motion to amend the complaint and an order granting summary disposition in favor of defendant on the basis of governmental immunity. We affirm.

The facts are not in dispute. Plaintiff’s decedent, a ten-year-old boy, was electrocuted when he and severed other youths entered an electrical substation located in an abandoned section of a housing project owned by defendant city. Plaintiff and decedent, his son, were residents of the housing project. The substation was a brick structure with a single access door…