Mendyk v. Michigan Employment Security Commission

Plaintiff-appellant, Lorraine Mendyk, appeals of right an August 30, 1978, judgment of the Court of Claims of no cause of action in the instant negligence action. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

On April 4, 1975, plaintiff slipped and fell in front of the Michigan Employment Security Commission (MESC) office in Saginaw, Michigan. Plaintiff testified at trial that at the time of the accident she was on her way to the MESC office to pick up her weekly unemployment compensation check.

Plaintiff, on the morning of the accident, had parked her automobile in a parking lot across the street…