Dohanyos v. Detrex Corp.

In these consolidated appeals, defendant appeals as of right in Docket No. 172651 from a December 17, 1993, order of the Wayne Circuit Court confirming an arbitration award in the amount of $240,000 in plaintiff’s favor and in Docket No. 176203 from a May 17, 1994, amended judgment granting plaintiff costs in the amount of $12,803.05. We affirm in No. 172651 and reverse in No. 176203.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Aaron Dohanyos, a nineteen-year-old laborer, died on July 2, 1990, at a Phoenix Metals, Inc., manufacturing plant while repairing a conveyor made by Livonia Magnetics, Inc., and owned by…