Mills v. Stankiewicz

This appeal comes to us as a matter of right from a circuit court order granting appellees’ motion for accelerated judgment in an action under Michigan’s dramshop act, MCLA § 436.22 (Stat Ann 1970 Cum Supp § 18.993). The basis upon which the motion was granted by the circuit court was that the two-year limitation period provided for in the above statute had expired. The facts here presented are not complex. Appellant’s decedent died as a result of an automobile accident which occurred on November 7, 1966. Appellant, as administrator of the estate, commenced this action on November 6, 1968,…