Poet v. Traverse City Osteopathic Hospital

433 Mich. 228 (1989)

445 N.W.2d 115

POET

v.

TRAVERSE CITY OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL

Docket No. 82941, (Calendar No. 4).

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Argued March 7, 1989.

Decided August 22, 1989.

Olds & Mackinder (by Douglas J. Mackinder) for the plaintiffs.

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Susan Healy Zitterman), for the defendant.

ARCHER, J.

We granted leave to consider whether plaintiffs were entitled to a new trial as a consequence of the trial judge's denial of plaintiffs' challenge of a juror for cause, where the juror was subsequently dismissed peremptorily.

We hold that a trial court…