Sucoe v. Oakwood Hospital Corp.

In each of these consolidated cases, the trial court denied a defense motion to compel more specific answers to interrogatories and then assessed costs, payable to the circuit court clerk, in an amount determined only by the number of *487interrogatories for which the motion to compel was denied. Defendants appeal by leave granted. We hold that the trial courts in these cases abused their discretion when they denied defendants’ motions to compel more specific answers to interrogatories. We also hold that it was an abuse of discretion for the trial courts to assess costs in an amount determined…