REEDY J DEEL V GARY JAY LYON
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
REEDY J. DEEL and IRENE DEEL,
UNPUBLISHED
May 15, 1998
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v
No. 202659
Oakland Circuit Court
LC No. 96-529939 FH
GARY JAY LYON, a/k/a GERRY LYONS,
Defendant-Appellant.
Before: Neff, P.J., and White and D. A. Teeple,* JJ.
MEMORANDUM.
In this appeal as of right, defendant challenges the trial court’s entry of an amended personal
protection order, which restrains defendant from engaging in certain forms of contact with his neighbors,
plaintiffs Reedy J. and Irene Deel, following the court’s denial of defendant’s motion to rescind the
PPO. We affirm. This appeal is being decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E).
The trial court did not err when it denied defendant’s motion to rescind, where there was
testimony at the evidentiary hearing, determined to be credible by the trial court, that demonstrated that
defendant engaged in a willful course of conduct that would cause a reasonable person to feel
frightened, intimidated, and harassed and that actually caused plaintiffs to experience these feelings.
MCL 600.2950a; MSA 27A.2950(1); MCL 750.411h; MSA 28.643(8). Its findings of fact are
expressly predicated on an assessment of the credibility and weight to be accorded conflicting testimony
and are not clearly erroneous. Given such findings, the issuance of the PPO on these terms is not an
abuse of the trial court’s equitable discretion.
Affirmed.
* Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.
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/s/ Janet T. Neff
/s/ Helene N. White
/s/ Donald A. Teeple
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