Williams v. Lubbering

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reed, J.

The action was for damages resulting to the plaintiff by an alleged assault and battery committed upon him by the defendant.

The facts .sent up are these: Williams, the plaintiff, was the janitor of an apartment-house in Hoboken belonging to one Lawrence Fagan. The defendant was accustomed to deliver ice to a number of tenants of the different apartments in the building. With one, at least, of these tenants he had an arrangement by which he was to deliver ice on June 1st, 1905, the day of the alleged assault. The plaintiff swore that the…