Ridley v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff successfully brought this wrongful death action after plaintiffs decedent was beaten by a gang of thugs, left in the middle of Jefferson Avenue in the city of Detroit, and run over by one or more automobiles, resulting in his death. We are asked to determine whether plaintiff pleaded in avoidance of governmental immunity. We hold that, because illumination is not part of the actual highway, the highway exception to governmental immunity does not apply and defendant city was entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

In our original opinion, 1 we upheld the verdict in favor of…