MANISTEE BANK & TRUST CO. v. McGOWAN

Docket No. 54961, (Calendar No. 8).

394 Mich. 655 (1975)

232 N.W.2d 636

MANISTEE BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. McGOWAN

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 8, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, DeVries & Gockerman, for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Joseph B. Bilitzke and Carl K. Carlsen, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants.

Amicus Curiae:

McCroskey, Libner, VanLeuven, Kortering, Cochrane & Brock.

Leitson, Dean, Dean, Segar & Hart, P.C., and Lopatin, Miller, Bindes & Freedman, for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.


LEVIN, J.

An act of the Legislature provides that the owner of an automobile driven with permission is subject to liability if it is negligently driven and causes damage to property or injury or death to a person. The act further provides that neither the owner nor a driver is liable for injury or death caused a guest passenger by negligent driving.1

The act expressly permits a guest passenger, along with everyone else, to recover...

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