Huppert v. Morrison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The first cause of action alleged in the complaint is for trespass to the plaintiff’s close, with injuries to his fence,-etc., to his damage $500 ; and the second is for an assault and battery, committed at the same time, to his damage $500. The answer avers, in substance, that defendant entered peacefully and rightfully upon the land for the purpose of drawing away straw belonging to him, then piled thereon, and was…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The first cause of action alleged in the complaint is for trespass to the plaintiff’s close, with injuries to his fence,-etc., to his damage $500 ; and the second is for an assault and battery, committed at the same time, to his damage $500. The answer avers, in substance, that defendant entered peacefully and rightfully upon the land for the purpose of drawing away straw belonging to him, then piled thereon, and was violently assaulted by plaintiff and other persons with pitchfork and clubs, etc., before he himself had used any violence,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following decisón was rendered at the June term, 1868.
Dixon, C. J.
This case comes up on exceptions to the instructions given and refused. We think the law applicable to the case was stated correctly in the charge of the learned judge to the jury, and see no error for which we think the verdict and judgment ought to be disturbed.
By the Court.- — Judgment affirmed,
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