BAZINAU v. MACKINAC CARRIAGE TOURS

Docket No. 202787.

593 N.W.2d 219 (1999)

233 Mich. App. 743

Walter Alex BAZINAU, Personal Representative of the Estate of William Bazinau, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. MACKINAC ISLAND CARRIAGE TOURS, Defendant-Appellant, and Bombardier Corporation, Defendant/Cross-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided February 5, 1999, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication April 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Green, Weisse, Rettig, Rademacher & Clark, P.C.(by Richard D. Clark), Escanaba, for the plaintiff.

Davidson, Breen & Doud, P.C. (by Craig A. Zanot), Saginaw, for Mackinac Island Carriage Tours.

Zamplas, Johnson, Sopt & Cavanagh, P.C. (by Dennis Zamplas and Julie Lyons Kosovec), Bloomfield Hills, for Bombardier Corporation.

Before: SAAD, P.J., and HOOD and GRIBBS, JJ.


SAAD, P.J.

NATURE OF THE CASE

In the course of his employment with Mackinac Island Carriage Tours (Carriage Tours), William Bazinau, plaintiff's decedent, hauled horse feed to Mackinac Island from St. Ignace by pulling cargo across the frozen Straits of Mackinac. Tragically, plaintiff's decedent drowned when the tracked vehicle he drove broke through the ice. Plaintiff, as personal representative of Bazinau's estate, seeks to hold decedent's employer, Carriage...

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