Swigart v. Ballou
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass, for assault and battery. Error to the Circuit Court of Du Page County; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
This was an action of trespass by William S.wigart, a minor, by his next friend, against Mae (alias Mary E.) Ballou, to recover damages for injuries resulting from an alleged assault and battery, committed upon him by her. The decdaration contained three counts charging assault and battery in various forms, the third, also charging malice.
There was a plea of the general issue and two special pleas of justification. The last two set up that at, the time of the alleged trespass the defendant was a school mistress engaged in teaching a certain school in the city of Naperville; • that plaintiff…
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