Pedotto v. Yantorno

This is an action for damages for assault and battery of the plaintiff by the defendants.

Mrs. Pedotto, the plaintiff, is the mother of the defendant Yantorno’s wife. For some time the family relations were strained. The plaintiff opposed the marriage of her daughter to Yantorno. Some of plaintiff’s younger children had trifling difficulties with the children of defendant, Center. As sometimes happens in such family controversies, bad feeling was engendered.

On the morning of the alleged assault the defendants had set out from their homes on a rabbit hunt, and on the way they stopped at the…