McLaughlin v. Consumers Power Co.

Plaintiff, Donald McLaughlin, appeals from a decision of the Oakland County Circuit Court granting defendant Consumers Power Company’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of negligence and also granting defendant’s motion to strike the counts of strict liability and breach of warranty from plaintiff’s complaint.

The events which are the subject of the present controversy occurred when plaintiff was engaged in the construction of manholes on a new sewer line which Boam Construction Company of Livonia, Michigan was laying for Genesee County. On the morning of Monday, August 22, 1966,…