Gatewood v. City of Detroit

Plaintiffs appeal from an order of Wayne County Circuit Court which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment under GCR 1963, 117.2(1).

Plaintiffs seek damages for the destruction of personal property and fixtures resulting from a fire. Plaintiffs allege in their complaint that a fire started in a house adjacent to theirs in Detroit on March 11, 1980. When Detroit firefighters arrived and connected their equipment to a nearby fire hydrant, the complaint alleges, the "fire hydrant was totally defective in failing to provide adequate water to fight said fire”. By the time an adequate…