Buczkowski v. Allstate Ins

In Buczkowski v. Allstate Ins, 447 Mich 669, 677; 526 NW2d 589 (1994), after an altercation, the shooter went home, retrieved his shotgun and deer slugs, drove to the home of one of the persons with whom he had been arguing, and shot at what he believed to be the person's truck. Rather than hitting the vehicle, the slug went through one of its tires, ricocheted, and injured the person, who, unknown to the shooter, was sitting in the yard behind his house. A majority of the Supreme Court affirmed this Court's reversal of the circuit court's grant of summary disposition to the defendant insurer. Chief Justice Cavanagh's majority opinion agreed with much of the reasoning of Justice Brickley's opinion, 447 Mich at 671, including that "shooting a shotgun in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night at an unoccupied car does not necessarily lead, as a matter of law, to a reasonable expectation of bodily injury." 447 Mich at 671-672.