Court Opinion

ID: 7959277
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:29:34.522429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:22.754305
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
On February 13, 1981, the trial court entered an order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants David L. McNew and Norman Mesack, doing business as Long Lake Bar and a judgment of no cause of action in favor of defendant Mary Tepass, doing business as Whispering Pines Bar. Plaintiffs have appealed as of right.
The Michigan Liquor Control Act provisions relating to lawsuits against bar owners or other *766sellers of intoxicants, "dramshop actions”, are an exclusive remedy in this state. There is no common-law dramshop remedy. Browder v International Fidelity Ins Co, 413 Mich 603, 613; 321 NW2d 668 (1982).
Moreover, the provision of MCL 436.22; MSA 18.993, mandating that "the minor or the alleged intoxicated person” be named as a defendant in the action, is mandatory and apparently without exception. Putney v Haskins, 414 Mich 181, 189-190; 324 NW2d 729 (1982).
Affirmed.