Wirth, by His Guardian Ad Litem, Peter Weisenberger, and Others, Appellants v. Ehly, and Others, Respondents

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal with prejudice of a negligence complaint arising from a minor's collision with an unmarked cable on a recreational roadway located on state-owned land. It held that DNR employees sued individually qualified as statutory "owners" and therefore received the recreational-use limitation on the duty to maintain safe premises or warn of hazards, including the cable. The court also rejected proposed exceptions for artificial conditions and minors and held that the plaintiffs lacked standing to assert unequal-protection rights belonging to employees of private landowners.