Case ID: mich-app_13/html/0584-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

REMALI v. COUNTY OF BARAGA.
    1. Judgment — Summary Judgment — Torts-—County—Governmental Immunity — Statutory Exceptions — Findings of Fact.
    Summary judgment for defendant eounty in an aetion by plaintiff to recover for injuries suffered in a fall on a stairway owned but negligently maintained by the eounty held, improper where no findings of fact were made as to the nature of the structure on which plaintiff was injured and it is therefore impossible to make a decision as to the applicability of the statute dealing with the liability of governmental units and its exceptions (PA 1964, No 170).
    2. Costs — Public Question.
    Reversal of trial court’s summary judgment for defendant county in a tort action pending the finding of further facts deals with a public question and therefore no costs are awarded on appeal.
    References for Points in Headnotes
    [1] 41 Am Jur, Pleading § 340 et seq.
    
    [2] 5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 1009.
    Appeal from Baraga, Condon. (Stephen D.), J.
    Submitted Division 3 October 2, 1968 at Marquette.
    (Docket No. 3,253.)
    Decided October 21, 1968.
    Complaint by Rudolph Remali against the county of Baraga for injuries resulting from a fall on a stairway owned by the county. Summary judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    
      Wisti, J aaslcelainen S Schrock, for plaintiff.
    
      Messner & LaBine, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

Rudolph Remali sustained injuries allegedly resulting from a fall caused by a defective board on a county-owned and -maintained stairway. Defendant’s motion for summary judgment (GCR 1963, 117.2) -was granted on the grounds that PA 1964, No 170 (Stat Ann 1968 Cum Supp §§ 3.996 [106], 3.996 [107]) provides the county with immunity in this regard, therefore, plaintiff had stated no claim on which relief could be granted.

A reading of the statute with its exceptions con-; vinces us that the matter cannot be summarily dismissed without first determining that none of the exceptions enumerated in the statute applies.

This cause is reversed and remanded for a finding as to the nature of the structure on which plaintiff was injured, thereby allowing for a decision as to the applicability of the statute and its exceptions.

No costs as a public question is involved.

T. G. Kavanagh, P. J., and McGregor and Philip 0. Elliott, JJ., concurred.