POE v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 98911.

179 Mich. App. 564 (1989)

446 N.W.2d 523

POE v. CITY OF DETROIT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard D. McMahon, P.C. (by Leonard D. McMahon), and Conway & Wright, P.C. (by Daniel J. Wright), of Counsel, for plaintiff.

Donald Pailen, Corporation Counsel, and Joanne D. Stafford, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendants.

Before: MICHAEL J. KELLY, P.J., and SHEPHERD and NEFF, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

In this wrongful death action, defendants City of Detroit and Lawrence Sneed appeal as of right from a February 6, 1987, amended judgment of $716,501.20 and an order denying defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or new trial. We reverse.

This case stemmed from an automobile-pedestrian accident at about 2:30 P.M. on May 23, 1983. The pedestrian, thirteen-year-old Eric Poe, had just alighted from a bus at the northeast corner...

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