Sheehan v. DeWitt

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict. The plaintiff brought the action to recover damages for an assault upon him by defendant. The verdict and judgment were $1,500 as compensatory damages and $5,000 as exemplary damages.

Plaintiff is the county attorney of G-ranite County. In his capacity as county attorney he had been informed by one Bailey that defendant, appellant E. A. DeWitt, here, had taken some of his, Bailey’s cattle and refused to give them to him. Plaintiff wrote a letter requesting defendant to come to his office to discuss the situation; the defendant went…