Monsma v. Williams

AREND, Justice.

This is a tort action brought to recover damages for injuries alleged by the plaintiff' to have been received in the course of an: attempted rape and sexual assault upon her by the defendant. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed. The principal questions presented by this appeal relate to> the trial court’s findings of fact.

On a night in September of 1961, the; plaintiff and the defendant met in an Anchorage bar where they engaged in conversation and had a drink together. Between one and two o’clock in the morning the…