Fill v. Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Co. of America

The trial judge dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint because the plaintiff had not filed an assumed-name certificate in Wayne County before commencing this action. See MCLA 445.5; MSA 19.827.

Before the entry of judgment dismissing plaintiff’s complaint, the plaintiff filed an assumed-name certificate in Wayne County and commenced another action against the defendant advancing essentially the same claim set forth in the complaint filed in this action.

The likelihood is that even if we were, on account of Krager v Harold E Hedler Storage, Inc, 7 Mich App 644, 650 (1967), or for another reason, to…