Longpre v. Schmele

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to recover damag-es because of an alleged assault. In the complaint, plaintiff alleges that the 'defendants, acting together, assaulted the plaintiff, then bound his feet with a rope, tied the rope to the tail of a horse and caused the plaintiff in this position to be dragged at a high rate of speed across rough and broken ground, rocks, and cactus to the great injury of the plaintiff. The answer first denied the allegations set forth in the complaint, then alleged that the plaintiff and the defendants did have trouble over a certain dam…