Sheehan v. Sturges
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an assault and battery; brought to the Superior Court, and tried to the court before Beardsley, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
This is a complaint for an assault and battery. The defense is that the plaintiff was at the time a pupil in a school kept by the defendant, that he wilfully violated the reasonable rules of the school and disobeyed the reasonable commands of the defendant as his teacher, and that for this misconduct the defendant as such teacher whipped him in a reasonable manner. The sole controver'sy upon the trial was as to the reasonableness of the punishment inflicted. The court found that “such whipping was not unreasonable or excessive and was fully justified by the plaintiff’s misconduct at that…
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