McCaul v. County of Kent

This is a certiorari proceeding to review an order of the circuit court denying a motion to dismiss as to the defendant the county of Kent. On November 4, 1923, two young ladies, Thelma Smith and Winifred McCaul, were instantly killed by drowning, and it is claimed that their death was caused by the negligence of the defendants. At the time of the accident they were riding in an automobile with two young men, going in a southerly direction toward the village of Lowell in Kent county, Michigan, over a trunk line highway known as M-66. At the place of the accident the highway crosses a creek at…