McKissick v. Schroeder

This appeal involves litigation growing out of an incident that occurred on August 2, 1967, in the city of Milwaukee. On that date Clifford McKissiek, an eighteen-year-old youth, was shot and killed at the rear of his home as he was allegedly fleeing from the defendant policeman, Ralph Schroeder. According to the allegations of the defendants, the youth had been observed with a fire bomb in the vicinity, and a warning shot was fired before the fatal shot.

Over eight years later a controversy still lingers over whether a sufficient complaint has been pleaded for the plaintiffs, A. J. McKissiek,…