Sirek v. State, Department of Natural Resources

How courts have described this case

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• holding that child-trespasser standard did not apply to child injured while visiting state trails with her parents because unaccompanied children did not frequent isolated state trail
• explaining that imposing liability for injuries suffered by children accompanied by their parents in state parks “would require the ‘childproofing’ of vast areas of state parks”
• state immune for injuries to supervised six-year-old girl who ran in front of car, crossing highway that was visible for 100 feet before trail ended
• “[I]f a child is too young chronologically or mentally to be ‘at large,’ the duty to supervise that child as to obvious risks lies primarily with the accompanying parent.” (quotation omitted)
• recovery permitted only where the condition is hidden or otherwise non-obvious
• recovery permitted only where the condition is hidden or otherwise non-obvious

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).