Alyas v. Gillard

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from various opinions and orders of Oakland Circuit Court Judges Robert L. Templin and David F. Breck which granted summary disposition in favor of the appellees. We reverse.

These cases have been consolidated on appeal. They arose out of a car accident in which plaintiff Assam Salmo was injured and plaintiff Alyas’s decedent, Manhal Alyas, was killed. Both plaintiffs brought dramshop actions against Eddie’s Bar, which allegedly had served the driver of the other car involved in the accident.

At the time of the accident, defendant John Gillard, doing business as…