Bonner v. Chicago Title Insurance

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from a circuit court order granting summary disposition in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs claim that the trial court erred in granting summary disposition of their negligence claim, in ruling that plaintiffs could not recover attorney fees as damages, in ruling that plaintiffs’ claim of slander of title was time-barred, and in dismissing their claim alleging abuse of process against defendant Chicago Title Insurance Company. We affirm.

Plaintiffs own land in Eveline Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan. On October 1, 1970, Claud and Edith Gill, who owned land…