Hageman v. Arnold

This is a personal injury damage action, based upon assault and battery by defendant upon plaintiff.

By his complaint, plaintiff alleged that defendant violently assaulted and struck him, to plaintiff’s damage; that the assault was without cause or reason and was malicious. He asked actual and exemplary damages. The defense was molliter manus imposuit. The answer made general denial and, by way of new matter, as a separate defense, alleged that, in defendant’s home, plaintiff used toward defendant abusive language and called defendant a liar and disturbed the peace of his home, whereupon…