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TOMECEK v. BAVAS

Docket No. 134665 (Calendar No. 6).

759 N.W.2d 178 (2008)

Frank J. TOMECEK, Jr., and Janis H. Tomecek, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Andrew Lucian BAVAS, Joyce Bavas, Inez Hildegard Bavas, Stanley Francis Stasch, Julia Stasch, Martha Stasch, Patricia M. Curtner, Timothy V. McGree, Peter A. Stratigos, Alice M. Stratigos, Pamela Krueger, Devereaux Bowly, Jr., David N. Derbyshire, Ellen R. La Fountain, Jonathan Rodgers, Royal Kennedy Rodgers, Lee Stahl, III, and Susan Stahl, Defendants-Appellants, and Indiana Michigan Power Company, doing business as American Electric Power Company, Inc., Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth, and Berrien County Drain Commissioner, Defendants-Appellees, and Daniel Johnson, Scott Loess, Kathleen Loess, Jane Henkle, Richard Cragg, Lois Zyer, Arthur C. Mertz Revocable Trust, Peter Levy, Benita Levy, Lakeside Property Owners, Chikaming Township, Robert Forker, Jr., New Buffalo Savings Bank Fifth Third Bank, Shoreline Bank, Semco Energy, Inc., Semco Energy Gas Company, SBC Ameritech Corporation, Michael L. Jones, Laura L. Avery, and Julia E. Pietras, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

December 30, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warner Norcross & Judd, LLP (by Devin S. Shindler, John J. Bursch, and Matthew T. Nelson), Grand Rapids, for plaintiffs.

Dickinson Wright, PLLC (by Jeffrey V. Stuckey, Kevin J. O'Dowd, and Phillip J. DeRosier), Detroit and DeFrancesco Dienes, P.C. (by Scott A. Dienes), for defendants.

Kelley Cawthorne, PLLC (by Frank J. Kelley and Steven D. Weyhing), Lansing, for Walloon Lake Ass'n., amicus curiae.

Law, Weathers & Richardson, P.C. (by Clifford H. Bloom), Grand Rapids, for Michigan Lake & Stream Associations, Inc., amicus curiae.

OPINION

MARILYN KELLY, J.

This case involves real property to which plaintiffs seek an easement for the purpose of connecting to a city sewer across the lots of their neighbors. The issues are (1) whether the Land Division Act (LDA)1 can be used to create substantive property rights, such as a utility easement, (2) whether an easement by necessity for utilities should be allowed in this case, and (3) whether the restrictive covenant...

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