De Vito v. Hoffman

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, entered after a jury denied appellants recovery in claims for damages allegedly sustained at the hands of ■appellee, and from a ruling of the court ■that the statute of limitations barred appellant husband’s claim for damages due to ■an alleged assault upon him by appellee.

As originally filed, this was an action by Tiusband and wife in which the wife ■claimed that appellee had assaulted her, with resulting injuries, and the husband claimed damages for loss of his wife’s…