Cullen v. Peschel

From a judgment on verdict for plaintiff the defendant appealed, contending that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment and that the verdict of $2,500 is excessive.

The action is a civil suit for damages commenced by plaintiff for an alleged assault which she alleged was made upon her by the defendant on or about the 9th day of September, 1940.

The plaintiff was then an elderly married woman about 52 years of age and quite deaf. She was a chiropractor, with a two-room office on the second floor of the Resner Hotel in the town of Ronan. This office she also used for her…