Rounsaville v. Camp
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages, from Floyd superior court—Judge Wright. October 9, 1915. C. W. Camp sued E. B. Bounsaville for $5,000 damages on account of an assault and battery, and obtained a verdict for $1,000. According to the plaintiff’s testimony, the defendant struck him in the face with brass knucks and knocked him down, kicked him, and stamped upon him; his lungs were stamped on, and this caused him to spit blood; the blow in the face broke his cheek bone and his nose, knocked…
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Action for damages, from Floyd superior court—Judge Wright. October 9, 1915. C. W. Camp sued E. B. Bounsaville for $5,000 damages on account of an assault and battery, and obtained a verdict for $1,000. According to the plaintiff’s testimony, the defendant struck him in the face with brass knucks and knocked him down, kicked him, and stamped upon him; his lungs were stamped on, and this caused him to spit blood; the blow in the face broke his cheek bone and his nose, knocked loose his teeth on one side of the face, and injured his eye, and he had to have the broken places sewed up, and at the…
1Opinion of the CourtWade, C. J.
1. There is nothing in the record to authorize a holding that the verdict was so excessive as to justify the inference of gross mistake or undue bias.
2. There is no substantial merit in the second ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial, in which instructions to the jury as to ■ damages for the alleged assault and battery are complained of. The expression “other damages” could not have misled the jury; and there was no request for any fuller or more precise instructions.
3. The prosecution of the defendant for the offense of assault and battery, and the resulting fine against…
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