Hern v. Iowa State Agricultural Society

I. These three cases involve the same question, and are submitted together for one opinion. The petition in each case charges, in substance, that the defendant society is a corporation organized and transacting business under the laws of this state; that on September 2, 1891, and during the annual exhibition of the society, the other defendants, as its officers and agents, and by its authority, did arrest, restrain, and commit an assault upon the plaintiffs, to their damage in the sum of five thousand dollars. To these petitions demurrers were filed on the ground that the alleged wrongful…