Derwin v. Parsons

Action for assault and battery. The plaintiff was tlie sole witness to the facts upon which she relied for a recovery. The defendant contradicted flatly the story told by the plaintiff, but he also claimed, and put in evidence to show that the plaintiff was afflicted with a certain disease, and that women having that disease are likely to have hallucinations under which they imagine that assaults like the one complained of are made upon them.

The case was tried b}7 jury and judgment rendered for defendant. The plaintiff complains of a considerable number of rulings made by the trial judge on…