Kent v. Alpine Valley Ski Area, Inc

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order of the Oakland Circuit Court granting defendants’ motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(7), (8), and (10) and dismissing plaintiffs’ claims for damages arising from a skiing mishap. We affirm.

Plaintiff Michael Kent,* 1 his son-in-law, Daniel Werner, and his two grandchildren, 3-year-old Mitchell Werner and 5-year-old Jeremy Werner, went skiing at Alpine Valley on January 1, 1996. Plaintiff was fifty-seven years of age at the time, had skied for approximately twenty years, had received formal ski instruction, and was, according to…