Nichols v. Zera

This is an appeal from an order of April 4,1970, by a circuit judge, denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment. A motion for rehearing on the motion for summary judgment was made and denied. Defendants applied for leave to appeal to this Court on July 31,1970.

This cause arises out of the alleged attack upon Francis E. Nichols in the halls and parking lot of Flint’s Northern Community High School. Plaintiff, a white student at Northern, was allegedly beaten by Negro youths from a neighboring high school, soon after both schools had been dismissed (on April 5, 1968) to allow the students…