Vandeveer v. Mattocks

The plaintiff in error brought an action of trespass for an assault and battery and imprisonment against the defendant in error and several other persons. The declaration contains four counts charging the trespass in several forms.

The only error assigned is the overruling of a demurrer to a separate plea filed by Mattocks.

That plea avers that on, Ac., a society or congregation of persons had assembled for the purpose of religious worship, and while actually engaged in such worship, the plaintiff refused to obey the rules adopted for the government of the assembly, but stood in the aisles or…