Hooks v. City of Detroit

Plaintiffs, Harold Hooks, an eight-year-old boy, by his next friend, Donald Kadushin, and Frank Hooks, father of the minor plaintiff, brought this suit to recover damages for injuries sustained by the boy when he fell into a basement light and air vent of an abandoned police station. At the close of plaintiffs’ opening statement to the jury, defendant, City of Detroit, moved for dismissal, and a judgment of no cause of action was entered. Plaintiffs appeal as of right.

The record shows that the trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ compaint for failure to state a cause of action upon which relief…