Hendrickson v. Kingsbury

i. MEAsnB-Eojr sauit and battery: punitive damages. I. The first question made in this case arises from the giving and refusing instruction to the jury upon the question of damages. The evidence m the case is not contained m the transcript; petition alleges that the defendant willfully, maliciously, wantonly and oppressively assaulted and. beat the plaintiff at her house, the house of her father in Fremont county, Iowa, just as she was starting to Sabbath school with her sister and a gentleman attendant ; that the defendant seized her with violence and struck her severe blows with his fist,…