Case Name: KUCHTA v. ST. CLAIR BOARD OF COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1969-03-24
Citations: 16 Mich. App. 390
Docket Number: Docket No. 2,646
Parties: KUCHTA v. ST. CLAIR BOARD OF COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS
Judges: BEFOBE: The Entire Bench.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 16
Pages: 390–393

Head Matter:
KUCHTA v. ST. CLAIR BOARD OF COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS
Opinion of the Court
Highways — Negligence—Pleading—Duty—Summary Judgment.
Denial of defendant’s motion for summary judgment affirmed in ease where complaint pleaded negligence on the part of the defendant board of county road commissioners, alleging a duty on the part of the defendant to keep a county road reasonably safe, fit and convenient for public travel, and a breach of that duty which was a proximate cause of fatal injuries to plaintiff’s decedent and damages to plaintiff.
Appeal from St. Clair, Halford I. Streeter,, J.
Submitted en banc May 13, 1968, at Detroit.
(Docket No. 2,646.)
Decided March 24, 1969.
Leave to appeal denied October 24,1969.
See 382 Mich 791.
Complaint by Edward J. Kuchta, administrator of the estate of James Kuchta, deceased, against the Board of County Road Commissioners of St. Clair County, for the wrongful death of his decedent when an automobile in which he was riding went off the end of a county road onto private property and collided with a tree. Defendant appeals from trial court’s denial of motion for summary judgment.
Affirmed.
Reference for Points in Headnote
41 Am Jur, Pleading §§ 340-343.
Vandeveer, Doelle, Garsia, Tonkin & Kerr, for plaintiff.
Bush, Luce, Henderson & Black, for defendant.
BEFOBE: The Entire Bench.

Opinion:
T. G. Kavanagh, J.
This action arises ont of an accident which occurred on October 13, 1964, wherein plaintiff's decedent, a passenger in a vehicle operated by James M. Boeci, suffered fatal injuries in a one-car accident which occurred at the intersection of Taft road and Island drive in Clay township, St. Clair county, Michigan. The car in which plaintiff's decedent was riding was traveling southeast on Taft road, a highway which terminates at its intersection with Island drive, thereby forming a so-called "dead-end" intersection.
The vehicle in which plaintiff's decedent was a passenger failed to stop at the intersection. It continued through the intersection onto private property to the south and collided with a tree.
Plaintiff claimed liability on the part of the defendant board of county road commissioners alleging a duty on the part of the defendant to keep Taft road reasonably safe, fit and convenient for public travel, a breach of that duty, which breach was a proximate cause of the fatal injuries to plaintiff's decedent and damages.
The trial court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment on July 25, 1966. On appeal this case was consolidated with the case of Mullins v. Wayne County, ante, p 365, and argued before our Court sitting en banc. Our decision in Mullins (decided today) controls disposition of this case.
Affirmed, with costs to appellee.
It. B. Burns, Fitzgerald, J. Ií. Gtíllis, and Levin, JJ., concurred with T. G-. Kavanagh, J.
Thomas Giles Kavanagh, Justice of the Supreme Court, assigned to sit on the Court of Appeals from February 27, 1969, "until the work assigned has been completed" pursuant to Const 1963, art 6, § 4, and CLS 1963, § 600.22Ó, as amended.
OCR 3963, 117.