Powell v. Meiers

Plaintiff brought action against the defendant to recover damages for assault and battery. On a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,000 compensatory and $500 exemplary damages a judgment was in due course entered. From that judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial the defendant appeals.

About August 16, 1925, the defendant and one Stone called at the residence of the plaintiff; and Stone, a codefendant of appellant Meiers, expressed a wish to borrow a rifle belonging to her son. The request was refused, coupled with some language that the defendants had already obtained enough…