Severance v. Gage

The complaint is for an assault and battery. The answer is a general denial. Trial by jury; verdict for plaintiff for one dollar damages. Defendant Annie E. Gage is the mother of Bernice Gage and wife of Walter H. Gage. They reside on a farm in Rockingham recently purchased of plaintiff. There was some trouble between Walter Gage and plaintiff about the ownership of sugar tools on the farm 'and also about a telephone line over the meadow where a pole line was located. A controversy had also arisen between the plaintiff and Walter with reference to moving the telephone line from the meadow to…