Janelsins v. Button

ELLEN L. HOLLANDER, Judge, Specially Assigned.

Harry Janelsins, appellant, has appealed from a judgment entered against him in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in a civil battery action instituted by Stephen Button, appellee. After a non-jury trial, the court awarded $15,750.00 in compensatory damages to Button, but denied his request for punitive damages.

Janelsins presents the following question for consideration: “Was the evidence presented to the Court legally sufficient to find that the Appellant committed a civil battery upon the Appellee?” He does not address that question in his…