May v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

"Walker, J.

Tbis action was brought to recover damages for a trespass on land. Tbe plaintiffs, busband and wife, alleged tbat tbe servants of tbe defendant entered upon tbe land of Jobn May, where they were living, for tbe purpose of removing telegraph poles, and while so engaged in their employer’s business, unlawfully and wrongfully violated tbe rights of tbe plaintiffs, as occupants of tbe land, by entering their home, and accompanied their act of trespass by menaces of violence and tbe use of profane and vulgar words, and by other conduct and acts, wbicb were unprovoked and nothing less…