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IN RE SKIDMORE ESTATE

Docket No. 323757.

889 N.W.2d 765 (2016)

315 Mich.App. 470

In re SKIDMORE ESTATE (On Reconsideration).

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided May 24, 2016, at 9:25 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Granzotto, PC, Royal Oak (by Mark Granzotto ), and Kline & Specter, PC (by Shanin Specter and Charles L. Becker ), for Ralph Skidmore, Jr.

Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Rapids (by John R. Oostema , E. Thomas McCarthy, Jr. , and D. Adam Tountas ) and Jacobs and Diemer, PC, Detroit (by John P. Jacobs and Timothy A. Diemer ), for Consumers Energy Company.

Before: SHAPIRO, P.J., and O'CONNELL and BORRELLO, JJ.

Opinion of the Court

Defendant, Consumers Energy Company, is an electrical utility and transmits high-power electricity over elevated wires. Shortly after dark, on July 19, 2011, one of Consumers' high-voltage power lines fell to the ground in a residential neighborhood. Catherine Skidmore (Cathy) was electrocuted when she...

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