State Mutual Cyclone Insurance v. O & a Electric Cooperative

I do not agree with Justice Kelly that the Coates and Baatz Cases are binding precedent disposing of this appeal.

The first Michigan statute of limitations, 1 Territorial Laws of Michigan, pages 628 and 629, was adopted May 15,1820. See Lastly v. Cramer (1846), 2 Doug (Mich) 307, 310. In general, under territorial law, actions of account, debt, case, trespass, detinue, and replevin were required to be brought within six years after the cause of action accrued; actions of assault, menace, battery, wounding or imprisonment within three years; and actions for slander within two years.

In the…