Bergman v. Hendrickson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas ■county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. The plaintiff, intoxicated, entered defendants’ saloon. After making two purchases of liquor for himself and others, for which he refused to pay, he finally made a third purchase from the barkeeper, one Backstrom.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Douglas ■county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. The plaintiff, intoxicated, entered defendants’ saloon. After making two purchases of liquor for himself and others, for which he refused to pay, he finally made a third purchase from the barkeeper, one Backstrom. Eor this also he refused to pay when called on, and some altercation took place, whereupon the barkeeper struck him, and rushed out from behind the bar, and seized him, whereupon he fell to “the ground, injuring his thumb seriously. He recovered a verdict, upon which judgment was rendered in…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. The principal ‘ assignment of error upon which appellants dwell is that the evidence conclusively ■establishes that the assault by Backstrom upon the plaintiff was entirely personal to the former for the purpose of wreaking personal vengeance, or satisfying his personal anger and indignation, aroused by a threatening motion and an opprobrious epithet applied to him by the plaintiff. Backstrom “testified upon the trial that the plaintiff, in the course of the colloquy, threw his hands up across the bar, in a manner in*436dicated by gestures, and called Mm by a vile epithet, and that he…
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