Brown v. Crawford

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

The appellee, Charles Crawford, a negro, sued the appellant, Creel Brown, for damages which he alleged resulted from a violent, malicious and wilful assault made upon him by appellant. The jury returned a verdict for him for $700, of which $500 was compensatory and $200 punitive damages, and the defendant has appealed.

It is first insisted that the court erred in refusing to sustain appellant’s motion for a directed verdict in his favor at the conclusion of all the evidence. This is on the theory that the evidence wholly fails to disclose facts…