Municipal Corporations- Tort Immunity - Liability for Personal Injuries Caused by Nuisance Maintained by City

Authors

James Hourihan, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Plaintiff, while in the bathhouse of a municipally owned and operated swimming pool, was injured by a shock received from an electric hair dryer. In sustaining plaintiff's claim against the city for damages, the trial court recognized liability for personal injuries caused by a nuisance created and maintained by a city as an exception to the common law doctrine of municipal immunity from tort liability. On appeal, held, reversed. The nuisance exception from a municipality's common law immunity extends only to injuries to real property occasioned by a municipally created and maintained nuisance. City of Decatur v. Parham, 268 Ala. 585, 109 S. (2d) 692 (1959).

Recommended Citation

James Hourihan, Municipal Corporations- Tort Immunity - Liability for Personal Injuries Caused by Nuisance Maintained by City, 58 Mich. L. Rev. 598 (1960).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol58/iss4/11