Williams v. Collins

This is an action to recover actual and punitive damages for the alleged rape of plaintiff: by defendant on the night of October 15,1910. The petition was filed in the circuit court of Holt county March 24, 1911, and a mistrial occurred at the August term. The cause then was. sent to Andrew county on a change of venue and a trial in that county resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff for three thousand dollars actual and two thousand dollars punitive damages. Defendant appealed.

Plaintiff, a spinster forty-six years of age, lived with her elder sister, a widow, in Fairfax and assisted…