Hardware Dealers Mutual Insurance v. R. H. Hidey, Inc.

At issue in the pages which follow is a long debated procedural reform. To replace multiple pleadings and. multiple trials, the bar has long advocated liberal joinder rules where the causes of action possessed by a number of plaintiffs (as here) arose out of the same occurrence or occurrences and the defendant or defendants were the same. The Federal courts followed English precedent and pioneered with signal success in this field and with the overwhelming approval of the bar. This opinion suggests that Michigan follow the example set (which in nowise controls us) by reasonable interpretation…