Solomon v. Shuell

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in which the jury found for the plaintiff and assessed damages at $100,000. The jury, however, found decedent eighty percent negligent and defendant John Shuell twenty percent negligent in the shooting death of decedent by Shuell, resulting in a total judgment for plaintiff in the amount of $20,000.

On March 20, 1981, officers Michael Hall, John Shuell, and Eichard Nixon of the Detroit Police Department were watching a house on Curtis Street in Detroit. Persons in the home were suspects in two recent armed…