Helsel v. Morcom

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order granting defendant Robin Morcom’s motion for summary disposition. We affirm.

Plaintiffs brought the present action to recover for the April 1993 fire damage to their tree farm. Morcom and defendant Karl Grokau lived together on property owned by Morcom that adjoins the tree farm. Morcom and Grokau burned their domestic trash and did so without incident for approximately three years. Grokau used a fifty-five-gallon steel barrel and wire screen cover with %-inch openings for this purpose. According to Grokau’s deposition, on the day at issue, he used…