Reed v. Ford
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 49. — ACTION BY NETTIE MAY REED AND ANOTHER AGAINST HENRY FORD FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY FRIGHT BY DEFENDANTS ASSAULTING ANOTHER. — September 25. Appeal from Barren Circuit Court. Samuel E. Jones, Circuit Judge.
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CASE 49. — ACTION BY NETTIE MAY REED AND ANOTHER AGAINST HENRY FORD FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY FRIGHT BY DEFENDANTS ASSAULTING ANOTHER. — September 25. Appeal from Barren Circuit Court. Samuel E. Jones, Circuit Judge. Prom a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition, plaintiff appeals. — If a drunken bully can go, under the cover of darkness, to the home of a woman, and curse, abuse and threaten to kill a defenseless person in her presence and hearing and right at her door, thereby alarming her to such an extent -that she was caused to take her bed for ten days, causing her great mental and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Settle —
Affirming.
Appellants complain of a judgment of the Barren circuit court sustaining a demurrer to their petition as amended, and dismissing the action. The appeal, therefore, presents for our consideration but one question, viz.: Do the facts alleged in the petition state a cause of action?
The original petition is as follows: ‘ ‘ The plaintiffs, Nettie May Reed and her husband, I. W. Reed, state that during the month of September, 1907, the defendant, Harry Ford, came to their house'in Glasgow, Ky., during the darkness of the night, in a drunken condition,…
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