Edgerton v. Lynch

1 Citing case

  1. Lyshak v. City of Detroit

    351 Mich. 230 (Mich. 1957)   Cited 36 times
    In Lyshak v. City of Detroit, 351 Mich. 230, 88 N.W.2d 596, a seven year old boy trespassing on a golf course was permitted to recover against the City of Detroit for negligence of an employee in teeing off a golf ball.

    As for the question of negligence, I do not wish to be understood to say that such question is invariably presented whenever one drives a golf ball on a golf course in the direction of others who are ahead, particularly if they are adults. As was said, however, in Edgerton v. Lynch, 255 Mich. 456, 460: "The courts have properly held drivers to a stricter degree of care when they see children on the road than when they see adults.