Galle v. Lynch

— 'Tbe plaintiff brought trespass against several defendants, for an assault committed on bis person. Tbe jury returned a verdict of not guilty, as to two of tbe defendants, and as to tbe others, a verdict of guilty, and assessed tbe plaintiff’s damages at one cent. Upon this verdict, tbe court rendered a judgment for full cost, without a certificate that more damages ought to have been awarded by tbe jury; and this is assigned for error.

Tbe act of 1822, Clay’s Dig. 816, declares, that in all suits to recover damages for slander, trespass and assault and battery, tbe plaintiff shall not…