Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2019-11-20 10:05:47.480045+00
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                 revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.

                          STATE OF MICHIGAN

                           COURT OF APPEALS

JOHN WHEELER,                                                     UNPUBLISHED
                                                                  November 19, 2019
              Plaintiff-Appellant,

v                                                                 No. 344496
                                                                  Oakland Circuit Court
BUSCH’S INC., and SIMSBURY F/14 LLC                               LC No. 2017-156740-NO

              Defendants-Appellees.

Before: M. J. KELLY, P.J., and FORT HOOD and SWARTZLE, JJ.

M. J. KELLY, J. (concurring).

       But for the Supreme Court’s order in Janson v Sajewski Funeral Home, Inc, 486 Mich.
934 (2010), I would hold that a jury should decide whether, on casual inspection plaintiff, John
Wheeler, reasonably perceived the pavement to be wet rather than covered in black ice.
However, as I am bound by our Supreme Court’s order in Janson, I concur in the result reached
by the majority.1

                                                           /s/ Michael J. Kelly

1
  An order of the Supreme Court is binding precedent when the rationale that the Court employed
can be understood. Evans & Luptak, PLC v Lizza, 251 Mich. App. 187, 196; 650 NW2d 364
(2002).

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