ALLEN v. CHEATUM

Docket No. 32, Calendar No. 47,192.

351 Mich. 585 (1958)

88 N.W.2d 306

ALLEN v. CHEATUM.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd II. Skinner and Alphonse Lewis, Jr., for plaintiff Allen.

Thomas J. Whinery for plaintiff American Fidelity Fire Insurance Company.

Hathaway, Latimer, Clink & Robb (Louis E. Burke, of counsel), for garnishee defendant.


VOELKER, J.

Just before dawn on May 27, 1951, Willie Cheatum was driving along the highway in his Ford pickup truck on his way from Flint to his home in Muskegon. He had had a long day, rising early the morning before and doing a full day's work at his trade as a cement mason in Lansing, or, to put it in Willie's more colorful language, "fanning a trowel all day." He had then driven over to Flint and picked up some tools...

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