Bookout v. Hanshaw

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant, Bill Book-out, sued appellee, Victor Hanshaw, for $6,000 actual damages and $6,000 punitive damages based on an alleged “unwarranted, illegal, malicious, and violent assault”. From a jury verdict in favor of appellee appellant, setting out several alleged errors, prosecutes this appeal. Briefly stated the situation giving rise to the alleged assault developed as presently set out.

On March 10, 1961, Hanshaw, a member of the State Police, along with other such members, set up a so-called road block at the junction of Highways No. 1 and No. 90 near Rector…