Harris-Fields v. Syze

600 N.W.2d 611 (1999)

461 Mich. 188

Brenda HARRIS-FIELDS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Manuel Henry Fields, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

Harriet Maxine SYZE, Defendant-Appellee.

Docket No. 112051.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

September 28, 1999.

William A. Worth, Jr., Jackson, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Conlin, McKenney & Philbrick, P.C. (by Joseph W. Phillips), Ann Arbor, for the defendant-appellee.

Opinion

The plaintiff's decedent was a Michigan State Police Trooper who was standing on the shoulder of a highway near the driver's door of a vehicle that he had stopped for a traffic…