Daingerfield v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action on the case in the circuit court of Alexandria, brought by D. C. Thompson against George W. Harrison and Reverdy J. Daingerfield, to recover damages for an injury inflicted by them upon him. The declaration contains four counts, setting out in different forms the injury which he alleged he had received.
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This was an action on the case in the circuit court of Alexandria, brought by D. C. Thompson against George W. Harrison and Reverdy J. Daingerfield, to recover damages for an injury inflicted by them upon him. The declaration contains four counts, setting out in different forms the injury which he alleged he had received. In the fourth count he set out the ordinance *of the city of Alexandria, which provides that no person shall discharge any musket, fowling piece, pistol or other firearms, &c., within the limits of the city of Alexandria, unless in the execution of some law, or in the…
1Opinion of the Court
CHRIST [AN. J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the city of Alexandria.
The action was trespass on the case, which the defendant in error (Thompson) instituted against two defendants. George W. Harrison and Reverdy J. Daingerfield, jointly. charging them, in various counts set out in the declaration, with assault and battery made upon him jointly by the said parties, by which said assault he was so wounded by a pistol shot fired by them as to cause the loss by amputation of one of his legs; and laying his damages for said injury at the sum of $10,000.
Both the…
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