Legal Opinion
Detroit Edison Co. v. Celadon Trucking Co.
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided January 10, 2002No. Docket 220391, 224055PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBandstra, C.J.
These two consolidated appeals involve identical factual situations, which are not in dispute. Electrical transmission equipment owned by Detroit Edison Company was affixed to or suspended from utility poles owned by Detroit Edison. The poles also carried wires owned by Comcast Cablevision Company and Ameritech. Trucks owned and operated by Celadon Trucking Company and TNT Canada, Inc., 1 struck those wires and, as a result, caused damage to Detroit Edison’s property. The lines that were struck were placed less than fifteen feet above the roadway, in violation of MCL 247.186.
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