JORDAN v. WHITING CORP.

Docket No. 11580.

42 Mich. App. 448 (1972)

202 N.W.2d 477

JORDAN v. WHITING CORPORATION.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Bindes & Freedman (Michael H. Feiler, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt & Peacock, for defendant Whiting Corporation.

Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile (by James D. Ritchie), for defendant Dearborn Fabricating & Engineering Company.

Vandeveer, Doelle, Garzia, Tonkin & Kerr, for defendant N & K Electric Company.

Before: V.J. BRENNAN, P.J., and QUINN and O'HARA, JJ.


O'HARA, J.

What started out as a conventional appeal of right by a plaintiff from a verdict directed against her in a suit for damages based on negligence and implied warranty has burgeoned into a vexatious procedural labyrinth. We will try to extricate from it those issues which have some general application to our jurisprudence.

This is how it all came about. Back in 1960 John Jordan was electrocuted while...

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