HOBBS v. DEPT. OF STATE HIGHWAYS

Docket No. 56990, (Calendar No. 10).

398 Mich. 90 (1976)

247 N.W.2d 754

HOBBS v. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HIGHWAYS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Kaladjian, E. Donald Goodman and Martin M. Doctoroff (Ronald D. Feldman, of counsel) for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Louis J. Caruso and Myron A. McMillan, Assistants Attorney General, for defendant.


KAVANAGH, C.J.

On May 22, 1972 Gailen Hobbs was killed when the automobile he was driving plunged off an overpass bridge onto state trunkline highway I-75. Suit was filed in the Court of Claims on October 9, 1973 alleging that the State Highway Department had been negligent in the design and construction of the bridge.

The defendant filed a motion for "accelerated judgment and/or summary judgment", claiming that the...

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