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BROWDER v. INT'L FIDELITY INS.

Docket No. 65520, (Calendar No. 7).

413 Mich. 603 (1982)

321 N.W.2d 668

BROWDER v. INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich & Rosen (by Steven G. Silverman) for plaintiff.

Zemke & Hirschhorn, P.C. (by Peter J. Lyons), for defendant.

WILLIAMS, J.

This dramshop case raises one principal question: may an injured party sue the surety on a bar's liquor bond in contract and enjoy the six-year statute of limitations available to contract actions, or is the injured party limited to the dramshop act's1 tort action and its two-year period of limitations? There is a subsidiary question whether the plaintiff, having brought the dramshop tort action within two years against the...

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