SBM seminar focuses on technology
The Real Property Section of the State Bar of Michigan will present “Groundbreaker: Technology for Your Practice” on Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham.
Organizers say the program is aimed at providing information on ways to incorporate technology into a law practice to save time, money, and effort.
The program begins with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. followed by roundtables from 8 to 9:30 a.m.
To register, visit http://connect.michbar.org/realproperty/home.
State high court rejects appeal in snowmobile deaths
MACKINAC ISLAND (AP) — The families of two sisters who died when their snowmobile plunged off a cliff on Mackinac Island in 2010 will get a chance to take their case to a jury.
The Michigan Supreme Court last week turned down an appeal from Arctic Cat, the snowmobile maker, although two justices wanted to hear the case.
It means a key decision by the state appeals court will stand.
Karen Schwarck and Edith Bonno died when their snowmobile went into reverse and over the West Bluff on Mackinac Island.
The appeals court said there’s enough evidence to have a jury decide whether a reverse alarm on the snowmobile was defective.
Justices Brian Zahra and Stephen Markman wanted the Supreme Court to take the case. Zahra says the theory offered by relatives is “no more probable” than others.
Woman can sue Best Buy over refrigerator woes, broken leg
LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals says a woman can sue Best Buy over the misery caused by a refrigerator that wouldn’t stop gushing water.
Paulette Stenzel says she returned to her Ingham County home one day to find her new refrigerator spraying water from a water dispenser on the door. There was water all over the floor, but that wasn’t all.
She fell and broke her leg in another room while dragging wet towels outside.
Stenzel sued Best Buy, which had installed the refrigerator, accusing the retailer of negligence.
A judge dismissed Best Buy from the case, but the appeals court recently reversed that decision.
The court says a jury might find that Stenzel’s wet feet — and broken leg — wouldn’t have happened without the disastrous refrigerator.
Can I come in? Wandering cow found in window well
LONG LAKE TOWNSHIPAP) — A 700-pound bull found a temporary pen in northern Michigan: the window well of a home under construction.
Tucker got away from a farm in Grand Traverse County when strong winds opened a gate Monday night. The Traverse City Record-Eagle says he was found Tuesday in a large window well but couldn’t get out.
Owner Gary Jurkovich says the cow was guided through the window, into the unfinished home’s basement and up the stairs. Tucker wasn’t injured — and he even knew how to get home.
On its Facebook page, Grand Traverse 911 says maybe Tucker wanted to “moo-ve into a new home.”
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