Raffin v. O'LEARY

On November 17, 1967, plaintiffs and defendant were involved in an automobile accident in the City of Detroit. Plaintiffs were in the southbound left turn lane on Livernois Avenue near Otis Street waiting for traffic to clear in order to execute the turn. Defendant’s automobile was traveling in a northerly direction on Livernois when an unidentified vehicle allegedly crossed into defendant’s lane and purportedly caused defendant to cross the center line on Livernois and to crash into plaintiffs’ car.

At trial, defendant’s theory was that the unidentified automobile’s abrupt lane-change created…