Johnson v. Simongton

Plaintiffs appeal by leave granted from the trial court’s grant of defendant Consumers Power Company’s motion to change venue from Kent Circuit Court to Newaygo Circuit Court. We affirm.

Plaintiffs’ cause of action arose out of an accident which occurred on a road maintained by defendant Consumers Power in Newaygo County when an automobile owned and operated by Brian Simongton collided with a motorcycle ridden by plaintiffs’ decedent, Scott Johnson. The seriously injured Johnson was taken to Butterworth Hospital in Kent County, where he died shortly after his arrival.

Plaintiffs commenced a…