Opinion
No. 115686.
July 13, 2000.
COA: 206886.
On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal from the October 5, 1999 decision of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is GRANTED. The parties are to include among the issues to be briefed (1) the proper application of the "natural accumulation doctrine," and particularly whether this Court should adopt the formulation of this doctrine as promulgated by the Court of Appeals in such cases as Morrow v Boldt, 203 Mich. App. 324, 327-328; 512 N.W.2d 83 (1994) ("[t]he natural accumulation doctrine provides that . . . a municipality . . . has [no] obligation to a licensee to remove the natural accumulation of ice or snow from any location, except where the municipality . . ., by taking affirmative action, has increased the travel hazard to the public"), and Zielinski v Szokola, 167 Mich. App. 611, 615-617; 423 N.W.2d 289 (1988), and (2) whether defendant took any affirmative action which increased the travel hazard to the public.