Jankowski v. Skupny

This is an action on the case to recover damages for a personal injury consisting of a gunshot wound of plaintiff claimed to have been inflicted by the defendant. About one o’clock Sunday morning, November 4, 1917, the plaintiff was accidentally *228shot in the right thigh while, with his wife, returning home from a call at a friend’s house, and while walking along on the sidewalk on Ferry avenue, near the corner of Elmwood avenue, in the city of Detroit.

Plaintiff upon the trial gave positive testimony that he saw the defendant, who was having an altercation with another person, fire the shot…