Raines v. Faulkner

Lovins, Judge:

A writ of error and supersedeas was granted defendant to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, in favor of plaintiff in the sum of five thousand dollars, rendered upon a verdict for that amount.

Plaintiff, aged twenty, who sued by her next friend, filed her declaration in an action of trespass on the case against defendant containing allegations which would support an action for simple assault and battery. Upon motion of defendant, plaintiff was1 required to, and did, file a bill of particulars, stating that the trespass out of which the cause of action arose took…