Armstrong v. Rhoads

Grubb, J.,

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury:—This is an action of trespass for assault and battery wherein the plaintiff seeks damages for injuries committed with direct and immediate violence to his person.

In this case the plaintiff Henry K. Armstrong alleges that the defendant George B. W. Rhoads, on October 19, 1901, committed upon him an assault and battery by striking him with a pitchfork, whereby he the plaintiff was seriously wounded and injured, and by reason thereof he suffered, and from thence hitherto has suffered great pain, and was hindered and prevented from performing and…