Gosselin v. Silver

These are two actions of tort brought in a district court. One was brought by a minor by his next friend to recover compensation for bodily injuries sustained by this plaintiff from an assault and battery upon him by the defendant in forcibly ejecting him from the defendant’s store.- The other action was brought by the father of the minor plaintiff to recover consequential damages. The trial judge made specific findings of fact and found for the plaintiff in each case. In each case the defendant requested the trial judge to "find as a fact and rule” that the "injury to the plaintiff minor was…