After reviewing a series of older appellate decisions, the Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's decision denying summary disposition. Even though none of the witnesses saw the ladder falling off a particular passing vehicle, the location of the ladder at the intersection of two freeways "supports an inference that the ladder in question must have fallen off another vehicle." The Court held that a jury could find that there was a substantial physical nexus between a hit-and-run vehicle and the ladder struck by plaintiff.
Labels: auto accident, Michigan Appeals, Michigan Appellate Attorney, Oakland County, summary disposition