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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


DORA STOTZ, Plaintiff-CounterdefendantAppellee, v RONALD T. BARROWS, Individually and d/b/a CAPITAL TRUST, Defendant-CounterplaintiffAppellant.

UNPUBLISHED May 1, 2007

No. 265154 Wayne Circuit Court LC No. 02-222766-CZ

Before: Zahra, P.J., and Bandstra and Owens, JJ. PER CURIAM. Defendant Ronald T. Barrows (defendant), individually and doing business as The Capital Trust, appeals as of right from a judgment, following a jury trial, in favor of plaintiff Dora Stotz. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand. This action arises out of a failed investment scheme, in which plaintiff Dora Stotz invested and lost $100,000, purportedly with a third-party, Donald Callen (Callen), the managing director of Chaparral Trust (Chaparral). The following is undisputed. Defendant introduced plaintiff to the investment opportunity presented by Callen, and to Callen himself. Defendant also used his own irrevocable trust, The Capital Trust (Capital), and his client trust account as a vehicle to facilitate plaintiff's investment with Callen/Chaparral by accepting funds from plaintiff and purportedly transmitting them electronically to an attorney for Callen/Chaparral named Herbert Bernstein. On July 2, 1999, after a conference call defendant set up between plaintiff, Callen, plaintiff's then-fianc

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