Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Blood

In these appeals as of right from orders granting plaintiff Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) in actions for a declaratory judgment, which have been consolidated pursuant to this Court’s order, minor defendants Mandy Fennell and Gordon Nummer, Jr., through their respective next friends, David Fennell and Mary Perry (hereafter defendants), appeal. We reverse.

Mandy Fennell and Gordon Nummer, Jr., were severely injured when an automobile in which they were passengers veered from the road and crashed. Fennell and Nummer, through their next…