Jackson v. Gossard

This is an appeal by plaintiff Lawrence C. Jackson from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Allen County entered in favor of defendant Gerald Gossard on the sustaining of a motion for judgment made at the close of the plaintiff’s opening statement and dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint. The action was a money action for the recovery of compensatory and punitive damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff resulting from “defendant’s unprovoked attack on the plaintiff” causing him personal injuries, pain and suffering, and was being tried to the trial court without a jury.

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