Berg v. Grand Rapids Gravel Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Richard Vanden Berg, was fatally injured on May 26, 1969, when struck by a tractor-trailer truck owned by defendant Grand Rapids Gravel Company. Defendant-employee Karl Nykamp was the operator of the tractor-trailer unit at the time of the accident. The event occurred on the company’s premises. Plaintiff, the wife of decedent, brought suit in Kent County Circuit Court against both defendants alleging negligence of defendants as the cause of the accident and resulting death of Mr. Vanden Berg, an invitee upon defendant’s premises.

Defendants, by answer, admitted that on…