MEEK v. TRANSPORTATION DEPT.

Docket No. 202971.

610 N.W.2d 250 (2000)

240 Mich. App. 105

Suzanne MEEK, Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard Dean Meek, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 3, 2000, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication May 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schreier & Weiss, P.C. (by Sherwin Schreier, Mark Schreier, and Alyce M. Haas), Royal Oak, for the plaintiff.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Brenda E. Turner and Harold Martin, Assistant Attorneys General, Escanaba, for the defendant.

Before: McDONALD, P.J., and DOCTOROFF and NEFF, JJ.


NEFF, J.

Defendant, Michigan Department of Transportation, appeals as of right from a judgment for plaintiff, Suzanne Meek, as personal representative of the estate of Richard Meek, deceased, following a bench trial in this wrongful death action under the highway exception to governmental immunity, M.C.L. § 691.1402(1); MSA 3.996(102)(1). We affirm.

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