Vanderwall v. Goodwin

Carl E. Goodwin & Sons, a copartnership, defendant and appellee, entered into a contract with the Michigan State highway department to construct a new highway known as US-31 from the village of West Olive, Ottawa county, south to the northerly edge of a State highway running east and west and known as M-21. No highway extends southerly from the intersection of the 2 highways. When the project was substantially completed, but before it was accepted by the highway department, it was opened to public traffic.

In the early morning of October 28, 1950, Doris Yanderwall, plaintiff and appellant, was…