Haverbekken v. Johnson

The appellant, Chris Haver-bekken, brought this suit against the appel-lees, Will Johnson, I. M. Solberg, and J. E. Spear, for damages, both actual and exemplary, alleged to have resulted from an unlawful and malicious assault and battery made by tbe defendants upon tbe plaintiff. It was alleged in tbe petition that tbe assault and battery occurred upon tbe plaintiff’s land, or land belonging to his father. Defendants answered by general denial, and specially that Spear was road overseer, and that they were all working a public road, under official orders, when tbe plaintiff ordered them to…