Legal Opinion

Moyses v. Spartan Asphalt Paving Co.

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided March 12, 1970No. Calendar 10, Docket 52,323, 52,324PublishedCited by 73 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.

These suits, pending now in the Ingham circuit, started out as actions for negligence. Plaintiff Gorman Moyses’ suit arose out of a head-on collision of primary defendant Spartan’s dump truck with his Willys station wagon. 1 The right of action pleaded by him accrued in 1965. The present appeal being here upon pleadings only, we observe from the face thereof that there can be little question of primary liability of primary defendant Spartan to Mr. Moyses. Certainly there can be no question of contributory negligence, there being no presentment in any pleading of that affirmative defense. See…

2Cases cited16 opinions

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  5. Morgan v. McDermottMichigan Supreme Court · 1969

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