SWEENEY v. SWEENEY

Docket No. 59035, (Calendar No. 3).

402 Mich. 234 (1978)

262 N.W.2d 625

SWEENEY v. SWEENEY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence W. Sperling and Sommers, Schwartz, Silver, Schwartz & Tyler, P.C. (by Melissa N. Lee and Edward R. Stein), for plaintiff.

Douvan & Harrington (by Gordon J. Barnett, Jr.) for defendant.


COLEMAN, J.

Michele Sweeney was injured when a car driven by her father, Jimmie Sweeney, skidded off a road in Ohio. The Sweeneys lived in Michigan; the car was registered and insured in Michigan; Mr. Sweeney had a Michigan driver's license.

Michele Sweeney sued her father in Michigan where the doctrine of intra-family immunity had been overruled in "the interests of justice and fairness to all concerned". Plumley v Klein, 388 Mich...

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