Pike v. Eubank

197 Va. 692 (1956)

GEORGE LESTER PIKE

v.

WALTER E. EUBANK AND WALTER S. SCOTT

Record No. 4456.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 16, 1956.

Satterfield, Anderson & Blanton, for the plaintiff in error.

Rooke, Merhige & Cole and D. J. Esposito, for the defendants in error.

Present, All the Justices.

1. Plaintiff sued defendant police officers for assault and battery. He testified that while being booked on a charge of drunkenness he was struck with a pistol butt by defendant Scott while his arms were being held by an officer whom he could not identify, and that some one said to hit him again. Testimony…