Pagano v. Department of State Highways

Plaintiff, as administratrix of her parents’ estate, filed a complaint in the Court of Claims against defendant-appellee for injuries resulting in the death of her father and mother, who were injured and died April 15, 1973, as a result of an accident on M-53 in Sanilac County. On that date at about 10:15 a.m. plaintiff’s decedents Robert and Genevieve Ireland were driver and passenger in an automobile traveling north on M-53. At the same time, third-party defendant Anthony J. Buffa was driving a Chevrolet dump truck owned by third-party defendant Ridgecroft Homes, Inc., south on M-53.…