Joyce v. Rubin

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court’s orders granting summary disposition to defendants, Barry Rubin, Bare Snow and Landscaping (Bare Snow), and Larry Garlinghouse. We affirm.

i. facts and procedural history

Barry Rubin and his wife Debra hired Valary Joyce about July 12, 1997, as a live-in caregiver for their mentally impaired daughter. Joyce lived and worked at the Rubins’ home in West Bloomfield until March 1998, when she left to work as a mortgage banker. On March 10, 1998, as Joyce was removing her personal belongings from the Rubins’ home, she fell on the sidewalk leading…