Jordan v. Whiting Corp

In Jordan v. Whiting Corp, 396 Mich 145, 151; 240 NW2d 468 (1976), the deceased was electrocuted "while he was repairing an overhead crane . . . ." Jordan, supra at 147. The plaintiff, administratix of the decedent's estate, alleged that the crane assembler's failure to properly ground the electrified crane was the cause of the decedent's death. Id. at 149-150. The Jordan Court based its conclusion that the plaintiff's causal theory remained pure conjecture on the lack of any evidence in the record identifying the decedent's location on the crane at the time of the accident. Id. Without such evidence, the logical sequence of cause and effect could not be drawn.