Jones v. Wilcox

These consolidated wrongful death cases arise out of an apartment building fire in which the plaintiffs’ decedents, Freeman Robinson, Sr., Freeman Robinson, Jr., and Sadie Macklis, died. The individual City of Detroit employee defendants appeal by leave granted from the trial court’s denial of two separate motions for summary disposition, one based on governmental immunity, and the other based on their claim that the Detroit Fire Prevention Code (dfpc) did not create a duty that the defendant building inspectors breached. Plaintiffs cross appeal from the trial court’s denial of their motion…