Bates v. City of Detroit

Defendant, City of Detroit, appeals a jury verdict of $350,000 issued March 13, 1974 in the Wayne County Circuit Court in favor of plaintiff. Defendant claims ten prejudicial and reversible errors were committed by the trial court during the eight days of proceedings. We have reviewed the entire record and conclude that the trial was fair. We affirm.

In this negligence action, plaintiff claimed that while working as an inmate at the Detroit House of Corrections farm his right hand was mutilated when a tractor lurched backward as he was manually connecting a plow. Plaintiff claimed that the *704lurc…