Haworth, Inc. v. Wickes Manufacturing Co.

In a declaratory judgment action, plaintiff sought to establish defendant’s liability as a corporate successor of polluting corporations for environmental contamination at plaintiff’s manufacturing facility. The trial court granted summary disposition for defendant pursuant to MCR 2.116(0(10). Plaintiff appeals as of right. We affirm.

In 1971, after a series of mergers and name changes, Gulf & Western Industrial Products Company (hereafter gwipco) sold the assets of three companies to Grand Rapids Brass Company (hereafter Brass). As part of this transfer, Brass as sumed the liabilities of the…