Jaroske v. Hurford

This case, in controlling principle, cannot be distinguished from Patzer v. Bowerman-Halifax Funeral Home, 370 Mich 350. Each of the 2 cases has brought up for review the fact of a violent automotive collision on a snow-driven and weather-dangerous trunk line of the northern peninsula, with each plaintiff having made out a prima facie case of actionable negligence on the part of the respective defendant motorists. The question here, as in Patter, is whether the plaintiff’s motion for an instructed verdict of liability should have been granted. We hold in negation and therefore reverse the…