Satham v. Muffle

While there are the customary minor disputes, a fair preponderance of the evidence shows the following facts: Plaintiff was an unmarried man, thirty-six years of age, in good health, weighed *65about 145 pounds, and was a grain buyer at the little station of Straubville, North Dakota. The defendant, Jacob Muffle, Sr., was a farmer, sixty-nine years of age, who lived adjacent to the village. He was very eccentric, and it would appear that some of the citizens, who should have known better, amused themselves by teasing him. The younger Muffles were his sons, also farmers, aged about thirty and…