Jessup v. Reynolds

Appellee brought suit against appellant and seven others, consisting of appellant’s wife, father, three brothers, sister-in-law, and Fellowship Revival Association, a corporation of which appellant is president, seeking a recovery of damages, both actual and punitive, alleged to have been sustained by appellant because of an unlawful assault and battery upon her person. The jury returned a verdict against appellant alone in the amount of $5,000 from which he appeals.

The declaration charged that the individual defendants compose a syndicate of evangelistic preachers who go about over the…