Hickey v. Booth

This is an action of trespass, for assault, and battery.

At the trial before the Superior Court and a jury, the plaintiff testified that in the summer of 1905, he was employed by the defendant as manager of a restaurant, conducted by the defendant, in the town of New Shoreham; that upon a certain day in August, 1905, in said restaurant, the defendant, intentionally, threw a large water-bottle at the plaintiff; that this water-bottle struck the plaintiff upon his back, over the kidneys, causing the plaintiff to fall down, and injuring him severely. In essential particulars the plaintiff was…