Dowerk v. Oxford Charter Township

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court’s orders granting summary disposition in favor of defendant pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(8) and (10), and denying her motion to file a second amended complaint. We affirm.

In 1972, Helmut Dowerk acquired a ten-acre parcel of land in the Charter Township of Oxford, in an area zoned for single-family residences. The only access to this landlocked property was, and remains, an existing private road commonly called Kimberly Drive. This unimproved private roadway, approximately one-third of a mile in length, connects the parcel in question with Indian…