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PATZER v. BOWERMAN-HALIFAX FUNERAL HOME

Calendar Nos. 17, 18, Docket Nos. 49,244, 49,245.

370 Mich. 350 (1963)

121 N.W.2d 843

PATZER v. BOWERMAN-HALIFAX FUNERAL HOME.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 3, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Lopatin and Harry T. Ward, Jr., for plaintiffs.

Arthur A. Neiman, for defendants.

BLACK, J.

These consolidated suits for negligence bring to consideration anew the assured-clear-distance rule of motoring conduct. The rule is a creature of statute (PA 1927, No 318, title 3, § 5; CLS 1956, § 257.627, as amended by PA 1957, No 190 [Stat Ann 1957 Cum Supp § 9.2327]). The antecedents thereof lie with the common law (see cases cited in Lett v. Summer field & Hecht, 239 Mich. 699 at 702). Its application to variant evidentiary...

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