Adams v. City of Detroit

Plaintiffs-appellants (hereinafter plaintiffs), former employees of defendant city of Detroit, appeal as of right from an order granting summary disposition to defendant under MCR 2.116(C)(7), on the ground that their claim was barred by the applicable statute of limitations. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Plaintiffs voluntarily left their employment with defendant pursuant to an early retirement plan available to employees who were at least forty years old and who had been employed with defendant for at least eight years. In 1974 and 1977, defendant’s city counsel passed…