Hanna v. Sweeney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for assault and battery, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Gager, J. ; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for |400, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTobbance, C. J.
In the trial court the evidence for the plaintiff tended to prove that the defendant committed upon him a violent, unprovoked and malicious assault and battery, whereby the plaintiff was greatly injured in mind, body and estate. Upon that evidence the plaintiff claimed to be entitled, if the jury found in his favor, not only to full com pensation for all his actual injuries, but also to damages, in excess of such compensation, variously termed exemplary, punitive, or vindictive; and the court correctly charged the jury in accordance with the tenor of this claim. St. Peter’s Church v. Beach,…
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