Gomber v. Dutch Maid Dairy Farms, Inc

This case involves the question of whether certain findings of an Allegan County Circuit Court jury are res judicata as to issues raised in an action subsequently brought in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court. The facts are taken from the "concise statement of facts and proceedings” certified by the trial judge in the Kalamazoo court.

On September 8, 1967 at approximately 6:20 a.m., plaintiff herein, Lyle Gomber, was proceeding to work in his automobile in an easterly direction on highway M-89 about four miles east of Allegan, Michigan. One Thomas R. Wuis was riding with plaintiff as a…