Glancy v. City of Roseville

These cases present the issue whether the second sentence of MCL 691.1407(1); MSA 3.996(107)(1), which affirms governmental immunity as it existed before July 1, 1965, codified the “two-inch rule”1 regarding municipal liability for sidewalk defects despite this Court’s abolition of the two-inch rule in Rule v Bay City, 387 Mich 281; 195 NW2d 849 (1972). Because the two-inch rule is a negligence rule rather than a principle of governmental immunity, we hold that subsection 7(1) could not reinstate the two-inch rule. Regarding defendants’ alternative contention that this Court should adopt the…