Irwin v. Yeager

The defendants ■ jointly pleaded a ' .general denial, and that the plaintiff assaulted them, and that they simply defended themselves, as they lawfully might do. The defendant Yeager separately pleaded that he was lawfully passing along a highway adjoining or passing over the property of the plaintiff, and while upon the highway the plaintiff made an assault upon the defendant, and thereupon the defendant defended himself, as he lawfully might, doing no further injury to the plaintiff than was necessary. The other appellant pleaded the same defense in the same form and manner. The defendants…