Skogman v. Chippewa County Road Commission

This case involves plaintiffs claim that defendant road commission was negligent in its snowplowing of a two-lane gravel road outside Sault Ste. Marie. Plaintiff appeals as of right from an order granting summary disposition for defendant on the basis of the natural accumulation doctrine. We affirm.

Plaintiffs decedent died from injuries received when the car she was driving collided head-on with another car near the crest of a hill. The accident occurred on the morning of February 24, 1994, after a road commission snowplow had made one pass each way near the center of the road, but before the…