Sieloff v. Hubbell

This case involves an alleged assault. The trial court directed a verdict for defendant on the ground that there was “no evidence whatever” of his wrongdoing.

The facts in the case, even from the plaintiff himself, are far from clear. According to his testimony he went to Rene’s Bar, at Kercheval and Anderdon streets, in-the city of Detroit, on the evening of Sunday, May 25, 1952, around 8 o’clock. There, he says, he had 3 bottles of beer, one of which he was drinking when he “got banged on the head.” At 3:45 a.m., the following morning, May 26th, he was admitted to the Receiving Hospital with…