McDowell v. State Highway Commissioner

Williams v. City of Detroit, 364 Mich 231, handed down September 22d, foretold the result of these suits. By separate opinion in that ease it was made clear that the Court had overruled, prospectively, the rule of immunity — from tort liability —of municipal corporations; no more and no less.

“We are not considering today — as the opinions of both Brothers suggest — ‘the doctrine of governmental immunity.’ That doctrine includes within its purview the State and ‘its departments, commissions, boards, institutions, arms or agencies.’ See the court of claims act, CL 1948, §§ 691.101 through…