Glahn v. Mastin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for assault and battery.

The plaintiff and defendant were adjacent landowners. Defendant’s land was occupied by a tenant. It appears that plaintiff had repeatedly cut a telephone line which gave service to the tenant, and threatened to do it again. Plaintiff also took out some fencing between the farms erected by defendant to prevent plaintiff’s stock from trespassing on defendant’s farm.

On February 2, 1921, the defendant followed the plaintiff into a hardware store in Gypsum City and knocked him down and…