Russ v. Good

The action is trespass for assault and battery, and the case was tried on a plea of self-defence,' — issue thereon being under the rule, treated as joined. The parties were stone cutters employed in a shed in Barre. It was the custom of the workmen to eat their dinners in a room adjacent to the main shed, at a table so situated that one end of it was against a wall, and one side was only far enough from another wall to make room for a long bench on which the men sat. The evidence was sharply conflicting, but there was testimony tending to show the following facts. The trouble here involved…