Greer v. Carpenter

This case came to me on reassignment. Plaintiff seeks to recover $10,000 actual and $25,000 punitive damages for an assault and trespass made on her. It is alleged the assault and trespass were made by the defendants, with others unknown to plaintiff, “acting each for himself and in conjunction with each other.” The answer of the defendants was a general denial. Judgment was for defendants, and plaintiff appealed.

The evidence for plaintiff tended to show that about eleven o’clock p. m., April 30; 1924, a crowd of people, estimated at not less than seventy-five, came to the home of plaintiff…