Zito v. Friedman

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered on July 27, 1979, in favor of plaintiff, after trial to a jury, reversed, on the law, and the complaint dismissed, without costs. Plaintiff, an unemployed alcoholic construction worker, was injured as the result of "a little argument with some guy” who "belted” him to the extent that he was brought on January 5, 1977 to hospital with multiple fractures of both sides of the jaw, compounded to the extent that a piece of jaw had cut through a nerve and protruded through the skin, and another piece of bone had become lodged under the skull. His…