Sletten v. Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas-county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for three distinct assaults committed within a period of as many months, consisting generally of the laying of hands by defendant on the plaintiff' and the soliciting her sexually. .The plaintiff testified to such assaults, and the defendant positively negatived them.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas-county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for three distinct assaults committed within a period of as many months, consisting generally of the laying of hands by defendant on the plaintiff' and the soliciting her sexually. .The plaintiff testified to such assaults, and the defendant positively negatived them. The court submitted the whole case for a general verdict, witk directions to find in favor of plaintiff if they found any one or more of tbe alleged assaults committed, and to allow ber such, damage as they might…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The most obvious of the errors assigned is presented by an instruction to the jury to include as an element of damage to be compensated “loss of reputation.” Respondent’s counsel offers neither argument nor citation in support of the proposition that loss of reputation is an element of the general damages resulting from an assault, even when accompanied by sexual solicitation; indeed, seems to concede the contrary, but urges'that the instruction could not injure defendant, because there was no evidence of any loss of reputation. The conclusion is non sequitur. Instruction to the jury to make…
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