Court Opinion

ID: 9670463
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:21:15.109475+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:04.846461
License: Public Domain

BANDSTRA, J.
(concurring). I concur with the majority that the statute applicable here, MCL 600.2947(6) (a), protects Meijer from liability because plaintiffs have no proof that Meijer “failed to exercise reasonable care” in selling the tree stand to them. However, I write sepa*600rately to note that the statute is not as clear or unambiguous as the majority portrays it to be. As plaintiffs’ argument demonstrates, the statute’s reference to a “breach of any implied warranty” when, historically, it was not always necessary to establish any failure to exercise reasonable care to pursue such a breach, introduces some question and confusion about the statute’s meaning. Notwithstanding that, I agree that the statute, properly interpreted, protects a non-manufacturing seller of a product from liability unless that seller failed to exercise reasonable care regarding the sale, regardless of the theory of liability advanced.