Elrich v. Schwaderer

Plaintiff’s decedent was driving his automobile in a southerly direction on the Dixie highway, between Drayton Plains and Pontiac. Defendant, a paving contractor, was engaged in widening the 20-foot concrete road, to which a strip 10 feet in width had been added on the east side, and a strip of like width was in process of construction on the west side. For this purpose defendant was using a movable concrete mixer, a bulky piece of machinery, much larger in size than an ordinary automobile, and which at the time of the accident occupied almost the entire west half of the old pavement at the…