Mihalek v. Cichowski

Dupont, C.P.J.

The plaintiff brought this action against the defendant Paul Cichowski1 and the defendant Angelo Ghezzi to recover damages for injuries which the plaintiff sustained when an automatic pistol was accidentally discharged and the bullet struck the plaintiff. After a jury trial, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. This appeal followed the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict.

On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court erred in charging the jury (1) without sufficiently relating the facts of the case to the applicable law, (2) on…