Levidow v. Starin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an alleged assault and battery, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hubbard, J.; verdict for the plaintiff for $100, which the trial court refused to set aside, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiff has recovered $100 damages from the owner of a steamboat on which he was a passenger, for an assault made upon him by the captain. The answer admitted that the captain laid hands upon him, but asserted that it was gently done without causing any unnecessary damage, for the purpose of awakening him to demand the fare due for his daughter, a child of six, who was traveling with him and occupying the same berth.
There was evidence from which it is obvious that the jury might well have found that, while by the rules of the defendant half fare was required from a child of that age,…
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