SUCOE v. OAKWOOD HOSP. CORP.

Docket Nos. 110843, 113973.

185 Mich. App. 484 (1990)

462 N.W.2d 780

SUCOE v. OAKWOOD HOSPITAL CORPORATION THOMAS v. CITIZENS INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lakin, Worsham & Victor, P.C. (by Sanford N. Lakin and Larry A. Smith), for James A. Sucoe.

Gary J. Canjar, for Tommy L. Thomas.

Feikens, Foster, Vander Male & De Nardis, P.C. (by Jack E. Vander Male and Joseph E. Kozely), for Oakwood Hospital Corporation and Jerry Drake, M.D.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C. (by Kurtis T. Wilder), for Citizens Insurance Company of America.

Before: GRIFFIN, P.J., and WAHLS and BRENNAN, JJ.


WAHLS, J.

In each of these consolidated cases, the trial court denied a defense motion to compel more specific answers to interrogatories and then assessed costs, payable to the circuit court clerk, in an amount determined only by the number of interrogatories for which the motion to compel was denied. Defendants appeal by leave granted. We hold that the trial courts in these cases abused their discretion when they...

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