Adair v. City of Detroit

In these consolidated cases, plaintiffs/counterdefendants, Celia Adair and Joy Management Company, appeal by leave granted from a circuit court order holding that the counterclaims of defendant, the City of Detroit, could be maintained as a class action. We reverse and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

On December 12, 1989, Celia Adair filed a class action to recover fire insurance proceeds retained by the City of Detroit pursuant to MCL 500.2845; MSA 24.12845. Joy Management Company filed a similar class action a short time later. Pursuant to the statute at issue in these…