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POWERS v. CITY OF TROY

Calendar No. 7, Docket No. 51,637.

380 Mich. 160 (1968)

156 N.W.2d 530

POWERS v. CITY OF TROY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cicinelli, Mossner, Majoros, Harrigan & Alexander, for plaintiff.

Patterson & Patterson, Barrett, Whitfield, Manikoff and White (Robert G. Waddell, of counsel), for defendants.

O'HARA, J. (for affirmance).

This case involves an interpretation of the Michigan wrongful death act.1 Specifically, the question is the meaning of the word "person" in the first sentence of the statute:

"Whenever the death of a person or injuries resulting in death, shall be caused by wrongful act * * * then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not...

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