Browning v. Paddock

These cases come under the rule of the majority opinion in Parker v. Port Huron Hospital, 361 Mich 1. The majority decision applied to that ease and to all future causes of action arising after September 15, 1960, the date of filing that decision. See similar treatment by the Illinois supreme court in the case of Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302, 18 Ill2d 11 (163 NE2d 89), and in a subsequent case of Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302, 29 Ill App2d 471 (173 NE2d 599).

Plaintiffs in the instant cases argue that permitting recovery by plaintiff in Parker, but…