Court Opinion

ID: 9720692
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:39:34.1519+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:20.693708
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Black, J.
(concurring in affirmance). When the defendant municipal corporation applied for leave to review the decision of Division 3 (granted February 10, 1970; 383 Mich 766), I concluded upon review of the papers submitted and the opinions below that Judges Danhok and Holbrook had reasoned out the right response for those combined and obviously difficult questions of statutory construction and constitutional validity which their opinion portrays (Maki v. City of East Tawas [1969], 18 Mich App 109). As I recall most here came then to similar conclusion, yet as recommended to us by one of our Commissioners we granted the application on account of the widespread importance of such questions. In a word, it was deemed best that the defendant-stated question,
“Was plaintiff’s cause of action barred by provisions of Act 170 of PA 1964, being MSA 3.996(101) et seql”
should come to decision by this Court in the light of the specific facts of the case as specially determined by the jury’s verdict.
The appeal was submitted January 8,1971. Since then two opinions submitted by two Justices have been submitted to us for consideration. One as I read it stands for affirmance of the judgment of affirmance which the Court of Appeals entered. Another disagrees, both as to reasoning and result. Being of continuing view that the Danhof-Holbrook opinion above is the most acceptable of the *161three that are available for endorsement, and realizing that this Court chronically has too many opinions of given cases, I have decided to adopt as my own that part of the Danhok-Holbrook opinion which commences on page 119 with the sentence “We come now to the constitutional question.”, and continuing through to the end of that opinion on page 125.
The above will satisfy the requirements of Const 1963, art 6, § 6. On strength thereof I vote to affirm, without an award of costs.