JOHNSTON v. BILLOT

Docket No. 49053.

109 Mich. App. 578 (1981)

311 N.W.2d 808

JOHNSTON v. BILLOT.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marston, Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin & O'Hare, P.C. (by David K. Barnes, Jr.), for plaintiff.

David W. Hearsch, for defendant.

Before: BEASLEY, P.J., and M.J. KELLY and N.A. BAGULEY, JJ.


M.J. KELLY, J.

This appeal arises after retrial of a wrongful death action caused by a trench cave-in. It is familiar to our reports. The sequence began when defendant, an excavation contractor, was hired to excavate a trench on the premises of the Sunset Trailer Park in Sandusky, Michigan. The excavation was part of a planned expansion of the trailer park, which required that a trench be dug from the existing septic system to the expansion sewer line.

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