Mill v. Roulliard
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Crawford District Court. — IIon. F. M. Powers, Judge. Action for damages for personal injuries resulting from an alleged assault and battery. The answer was a general denial and a plea of self-defense. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for. $1. Plaintiff filed a motion for new trial on various grounds. This motion was overruled and the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The petition alleged that the defendant did maliciously both bite and strike the plaintiff. The defendant by his answer admitted that he did both bite and strike the plaintiff but he averred that he did the same to repel assaults on the part of the plaintiff upon the defendant and in reasonable self-defense. Fourteen grounds of reversal are laid in appellant’s brief. These grounds, however, all revolve about one or two points and are so treated in appellant’s argument and we shall follow the argument in our consideration of them.
1. Assault and battery : verdict for nominal damages: actual…
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