FUHRMANN v. HATTAWAY

Docket No. 52382.

109 Mich. App. 429 (1981)

311 N.W.2d 379

FUHRMANN v. HATTAWAY.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich & Rosen (by Steven G. Silverman), for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and George L. McCargar and Craig Atchinson, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and BASHARA and K.N. SANBORN, JJ.


K.N. SANBORN, J.

On March 3, 1976, plaintiff Martin Fuhrmann, who was acting in his employment as a police officer for the City of Detroit, answered a call that an armed man had barricaded himself in a room at the Addison Hotel. During the course of this episode a police chaplain was killed when he was shot by the armed man, Chauncy West. Plaintiff sustained serious, permanent injuries when he, too, was struck by bullets from West's gun.

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