Hildreth v. Hancock
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Trespass. In the Circuit Court of Vermilion County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Declaration for an assault and battery; pleas of the general issue and son assault demesne; trial by jury; verdict for plaintiffs §1,300, and judgment; appeal by defendants. Heard in this court at the May term, 1894, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pleasants
Appellee obtained judgment below on a verdict for $1,300 damages against appellants for assault and battery. The only reasons for its reversal urged on this appeal are that the verdict of guilty was not supported by the evidence, and that if it was, the damages are excessive.
We find in the record some three hundred typewritten pages of testimony, conflicting on all material points. On the part of the plaintiff it clearly tended to prove that on May 9, 1893, William H. Hildreth, being dissatisfied with his removal of a little piece of fence which he claimed the right to remove, in the presence…
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