J & L Investment Co., LLC v. Department of Natural Resources

Plaintiff appeals as of right an order entered by the circuit court granting defendants’, Department of Natural Resources (dnr) and Rodney Stokes, chief of the dnr’s real estate division, motion for summary disposition. We conclude that the circuit court correctly determined that defendants were under no duty that prevented them from removing parcels of property from a public auction sale, and we affirm.

On April 18, 1994, an employee of the real estate division of the dnr wrote a letter to the city of Lansing, inquiring whether it would be interested in reserving, and later acquiring title…