Case ID: mich_280/html/0043-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wiest, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PAGE v. STORY.
    Courts — Declaration on Rights — Release—Injunction—Action at Law.
    Declaration of rights under release obtained for personal injury and injunction restraining action at law held, properly denied where ease involves issues of fact properly triable in action at law between same parties.
    Appeal from Allegan; Miles (Fred T.), J.
    Submitted January 14, 1937.
    (Docket No. 53, Calendar No. 39,074.)
    Decided May 21, 1937.
    Bill by Glen Page and Clarence Laws against Thomas J. Story, individually and as special and general administrator of the estate of Merton J. Story, deceased, Lottie M. Story and Otsego Sanitary Milk Company, a Michigan corporation, to restrain an action at law and for a declaratory judgment on a release. Bill dismissed. Plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Harry C. Howard, John C. Howard and William J. Howard, for plaintiffs.
    
      Leo W, Hoffman and Carl E. Hoffman, for defendants.
   Wiest, J.

In an automobile accident Merton J. Story, 17 years of age, received injuries causing his death. His parents, sole heirs at law of his estate, executed a release of plaintiffs herein from liability, on account of the accident and death, upon payment of $235. Thereafter, the father of the deceased was appointed administrator of the estate and brought an action at law ag'ainst plaintiffs herein and the Otsego Sanitary Milk Products Company to recover damages under the survival act. Thereupon plaintiffs filed the bill herein against Mr. Story, individually and as administrator of the estate, Lottie M. Story, mother of the deceased, and the Otsego Sanitary Milk Company to obtain a decree declaratory of their rights under- the mentioned release and to restrain prosecution of the action at law.

The bill was dismissed on the ground that it was not a case for a declaration of rights as plaintiffs had an adequate remedy in the action at law. Plaintiffs review by appeal.

The action at law has been tried, with judgment therein for the administrator, and that action has been reviewed. Story v. Page, ante, 34.

The case at bar involved issues of fact properly triable in the action at law, and the court was right in dismissing the bill.

The decree is affirmed, with costs to defendants Story.

Fead, C. J., and Forth, Butzel, Bushnell, Sharpe, Potter, and Chandler, JJ., concurred. 
      
       See 3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 13040 et seq. — Reporter.