Holland v. Eaton

In these 4 cases, consolidated on appeal, plaintiffs appeal from orders granting defendants’ motions to dismiss. The grounds for these motions were that the actions were barred by the 2-year limitation in the Michigan civil damage act 1 on the time within which suits under the act must be brought.

Plaintiff Shirley Holland and the estates of her 3 minor children commenced these actions in Branch circuit court on February 14, 1962, by filing declarations alleging joint and several liability of defendant liquor licensees under the civil damage act, popularly known as the dram shop act, for…