Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
March 22, 2017 Stephen J. Markman,
Chief Justice
Robert P. Young, Jr.
Brian K. Zahra
153979 Bridget M. McCormack
David F. Viviano
Richard H. Bernstein
MARLETTE AUTO WASH, LLC, Joan L. Larsen,
Plaintiff/Counterdefendant Justices
-Appellant,
v SC: 153979
COA: 326486
Sanilac CC: 14-035490-CH
VAN DYKE SC PROPERTIES, LLC,
Defendant/Counterplaintiff
-Appellee.
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On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the May 10, 2016
judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is GRANTED. The parties shall
address whether open, notorious, adverse, and continuous use of property for at least
fifteen years creates a prescriptive easement that is an easement appurtenant, without
regard to whether the owner of the dominant estate took legal action to claim the
easement.
I, Larry S. Royster, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
March 22, 2017
d0315
Clerk