Detroit Edison Co. v. City of Detroit

This suit was brought by The Detroit Edison Company against the City of Detroit to recover Edison’s cost of relocating certain equipment and steam conduits as a result of the city’s expansion of Cobo Hall, a convention center owned and operated by the city.

The trial court, in a thoroughly researched and well-written opinion, granted the city’s motion for summary disposition on the basis that the expansion of Cobo Hall represented the exercise by the city of a governmental function, and not the exercise of a proprietary function. Edison now appeals as of right from the circuit court order…