Cowperthwait v. Brown

Fawcett, C.

This action was brought in the district court for Pawnee county to recover damages for an assault. The petition is in the usual form. The answer is a general denial, coupled with an allegation that “the plaintiff unlawfully and against the will and wishes, and against the protest of this defendant, entered upon the premises of this de*328fendant, and was in the act of trespassing thereon, and this defendant, finding the plaintiff; in the act of trespassing upon defendant’s premises, ordered plaintiff to depart therefrom, but the plaintiff, being of a pugnacious and quarrelsome…