Ladner v. Vander Band

Counsel for the defendant-appellees depend mistakenly upon Kruutari v. Hageny (DC WD Mich), 75 F Supp 610, a decision which was handed down prior to enactment of the plenary codification of 1949 (CLS 1961, § 257.1 et seq. [Stat Ann 1960 Rev § 9.1801 et seq.]; known by short title as the “Michigan vehicle code”). More comprehensive, and definitely less restrictive than the statutory title Judge Starr was considering when he wrote Kruutari, is the title which headed the vehicle code at the time this plaintiff’s injury was sustained (September of 1960). It read at the time and reads now (2A CLS…