Skinner v. Bevans

PITTMAN, Judge.

Arthur Lane Skinner appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict of $35,000 in favor of Raymond C. Bevans on Bevans’s assault-and-battery claim against him and from summary judgments in favor of Bevans as to seven counterclaims he asserted against Bevans. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for a new trial.

Facts and Procedural History

Skinner and Bevans are neighbors in rural Butler County. Bevans’s property fronts on a public road; Skinner’s property is landlocked, but he has access to the public road via a right-of-way easement that runs through the property of…