SOLOMON v. SHUELL

Docket No. 82658, (Calendar No. 1).

435 Mich. 104 (1990)

457 N.W.2d 669

SOLOMON v. SHUELL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurswell, Chayet & Weiner (by Harvey Chayet, Julie Griffiths, and Tammy J. Reiss) for the plaintiff.

City of Detroit Law Department (by Marion R. Jenkins), Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Williams, Schaefer, Ruby & Williams, P.C. (by James P. Cunningham), for Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.

Dykema, Gossett (by Robert N. Hammond) and Cheatham & Acker (by James G. Gross) for Michigan Defense Trial Counsel.

Mark Granzotto, Monica Linkner, and Charles P. Burbach for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.


ARCHER, J.

We granted leave to appeal in order to consider two principal questions. The first question is whether four police reports were properly admitted into evidence under either MRE 803(6), the business records exception to the hearsay rule, or MRE 803(8), the public records hearsay exception. The second question is whether the jury was properly instructed on the so-called rescue doctrine. We would hold that the police reports were improperly admitted into evidence...

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