Corinti v. Wittkopp

The city of Muskegon passed an ordinance in 1948 making it unlawful to leave the ignition key in an automobile parked upon a public street. In this case plaintiff claims tbat defendants’ violation of that ordinance resulted in defendants’ automobile doing considerable damage to plaintiff’s grape arbor, while it was being driven by a thief seeking to escape a police chase.

The detailed facts are set out thus in plaintiff’s declaration which the circuit judge dismissed on motion, thus presenting to us on plaintiff’s appeal a question which has not heretofore been decided in this State:

“That…