Christman v. Hickman

This is an action to recover damages for an alleged assault and battery. Plaintiff recovered judgment for $500 actual damage, and defendant appeals.

It is alleged in plaintiff's petition that he was a pupil in the Yeager School, a public school in Kansas City, Missouri; that defendant was a teacher in said school; that on the 19th of May, 1926, the defendant did whip, beat, bruise, wound and illtreat the plaintiff, who was then nine years of age, with a broom stick or large stick and did deliberately, in an unreasonable, cruel, and excessive manner strike plaintiff upon the legs and other…