Johnston v. Sikes
Connecticut Superior Court
Action for an assault; brought to the Superior Court in Tolland county. The case was heard upon a demurrer of the defendant to a reply of the plaintiff to a plea of the statute of limitations. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This is an action for an assault made by the defendant upon the person of the plaintiff.
The complaint is dated February 28th, 1888, and was served on the following day. The assault is charged to have been committed on the first day of February, 1885, more than three years before. The defendant pleads the statute of limitations, by which such an action is barred by the lapse of three years. The plaintiff replies to this plea, that, although the cause of action then arose, yet that soon after the defendant, in settlement of the plaintiff’s claim for damages, made and delivered to one McFarland,…
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