Opinion

Myers v. Genesee County Auditor

  • 375 Mich. 1
  • 133 N.W.2d 190
  • 1965 Mich. LEXIS 239
Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 1, 1965
Status
Published
Author
Dethmers
On the bench
Kavanagh, O'Hara, Brack, Souris, Kelly, Dethmers, Smith
Cited by
68 cases
Authority
More cited than 9.6%

holding no governmental immunity for county

How later courts described this case

  • holding no governmental immunity for county
  • “Sovereign immunity is a specific term limited in its application to the State and to the departments, commissions, boards, institutions, and instrumentalities of the State.”
  • the common law and statutes abide unless “changed, amended or repealed”
  • opinion by O’Hara, J.

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Dethmers, J.

(dissenting). I dissent from the opinion of Mr. Justice O’Hara for the reasons stated in the opinion of Mr. Justice Carr in Williams v. City of Detroit, 364 Mich 231 , and, accordingly hold for affirmance. No costs.

Kelly, J., concurred with Dethmers, J.

Smith, J., did not sit.

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