Brown v. Evans
United States Circuit Court
This is an action brought by plaintiff to recover from defendant the sum.of |20,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of an assault and battery committed by defendant upon plaintiff, on or about the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1881, at the town of Beno, county of Washoe, state of Nevada. The cause was duly tried in this court at the November term thereof, 1882; Hon. Lorenzo Sawyer, circuit judge, and Hon. G. M. Sabin, district judge, presiding.
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This is an action brought by plaintiff to recover from defendant the sum.of |20,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of an assault and battery committed by defendant upon plaintiff, on or about the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1881, at the town of Beno, county of Washoe, state of Nevada. The cause was duly tried in this court at the November term thereof, 1882; Hon. Lorenzo Sawyer, circuit judge, and Hon. G. M. Sabin, district judge, presiding. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $8,150.87, and judgment was thereupon duly entered for said sum…
1Opinion of the CourtSabin, J.
This action was brought by plaintiff in the proper state court (and afterwards removed to this court) to recover from defendant the sum of $20,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of a most brutal, unprovoked, and wanton assult and battery committed by defendant upon plaintiff, March 30, 1881, at the town of Eeno, in the county of Washoe, state of Nevada, accompanied by acts of great atrocity, and nearly culminating in the death of plaintiff.
The defendant pleaded a qualified denial and justification of the assault, but it is very difficult, in fact impossible, to…
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