Vosburg v. Putney
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Wa/uliesha County. The facts are stated in the opinion. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtObtoN, J.
The facts of this case are briefly as follows: The plaintiff was about fourteen years of age, and the defendant about eleven years of age. On the 20th day of February, 1889, they were sitting opposite to each other across an aisle in the high school of the village of "Wauke-sha. The defendant reached across the aisle with his foot, and hit with his toe the shin of the right leg of the plaintiff. The touch was slight. The plaintiff did not feel it, either on account of its being so slight or of loss of sensation produced by the shock. In a few moments he felt a violent pain in that place,…
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