Opinion
SC: 155120 COA: 328191
05-30-2018
Celestine STACKER, Personal Representative of the Estate of Mae Hendrix, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAUTREC, LTD, Defendant-Appellant.
Order
By order of June 7, 2017, the application for leave to appeal the October 27, 2016 judgment of the Court of Appeals was held in abeyance pending the decision in Martin v. Milham Meadows I Ltd. Partnership (Docket No. 154360). On order of the Court, leave to appeal having been denied in Martin on March 9, 2018, 501 Mich. 1002, 907 N.W.2d 597 (2018), the application is again considered. We direct the Clerk to schedule oral argument on whether to grant the application or take other action. MCR 7.305(H)(1).
The appellant shall file a supplemental brief within 42 days of the date of this order addressing whether genuine issues of material fact preclude summary disposition on the plaintiff’s claim that the driveway at issue was not "fit for the use intended by the parties." MCL 554.139(1)(a). In addition to the brief, the appellant shall electronically file an appendix conforming to MCR 7.312(D)(2). In the brief, citations to the record must provide the appendix page numbers as required by MCR 7.312(B)(1). The appellee shall file a supplemental brief within 21 days of being served with the appellant’s brief. The appellee shall also electronically file an appendix, or in the alternative, stipulate to the use of the appendix filed by the appellant. A reply, if any, must be filed by the appellant within 14 days of being served with the appellee’s brief. The parties should not submit mere restatements of their application papers.
The Michigan Association for Justice, Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, Inc., and the Negligence Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan are invited to file briefs amicus curiae. Other persons or groups interested in the determination of the issues presented in this case may move the Court for permission to file briefs amicus curiae.