Court Opinion

ID: 9455215
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:14:30.682352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:30.249592
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JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) .
The majority opinion concludes that Dees v. L. F. Largess Company, 1 Mich. App. 421, 136 N.W.2d 715 (1965), is directly in point and that Vannoy v. City of Warren, 15 Mich.App. 158, 166 N.W. 2d 486 (1968), is without application, but I am unable to agree with either conclusion. In the present context, Dees holds only that because there was as a matter of law no evidence of negligence on the part of the general contractor, that issue was properly withheld from jury consideration. Vannoy, on the other hand, decreed that, “Whether the performance of decedent’s task was inherently and intrinsically dangerous was a question of fact which the trial judge properly submitted to the jury.” 15 Mich.App. at 164, 166 N.W.2d at 489. I would remand the present case for submission of that issue to the jury in accordance with what in my view is the only Michigan determination in point.