Baniulis v. Sundik

The defendants, in their answer, admitted the assault and claimed justification. The plaintiff is a single man, and for about two years had been a roomer in a house conducted by the defendant Anefry Sundik in Ansonia. At about five o’clock on Sunday morning, October 27th, 1929, the plaintiff, partially dressed and intoxicated, went from his room on the third floor to the second floor, and rapped on the door of the defendants’ kitchen two or three times. The defendants, who were asleep in bed, were awakened by the noise of the rapping. The defendant Anna Sundik thereupon arose from bed, turned…