SCHEURMAN v. DEP'T OF TRANSPORTATION

Docket Nos. 81739, 82567, (Calendar Nos. 10-11).

434 Mich. 619 (1990)

456 N.W.2d 66

SCHEURMAN v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROKOP v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sobel & Cahill, P.C. (by Michael A. Sobel and John Cahill), for plaintiff Scheurman.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Richard D. Fox and Richard Toth), for plaintiff Prokop.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Brenda E. Turner, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant Department of Transportation.

Saul A. Green, Corporation Counsel, and David A. Perkins, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendant Wayne County Board of Road Commissioners.


RILEY, C.J.

We granted leave to appeal in these two cases, consolidated for purposes of this appeal, to decide whether the highway exception1 to governmental immunity2 imposes upon the state or the counties the duty to: (1) install street lighting, and (2) remove, or cause to be removed, vegetation growing on private property which obstructs the view of motorists...

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