Watson v. Dilts
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from, Henry District Court.- — Hon. James D. Smyth, Judge. Action to recover damages for physical disability, produced by fright. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and judgment rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwin, J. —
The petition alleges that the plaintiff is a married woman, and that on the 9th day of February, she resided, with her husband and child, on a farm remote from the traveled highway; that in the night time of said day, at about the hour of 11 o’clock, and after she, her husband, and her child had gone to bed, the defendant *250wrongfully, surreptitiously, and stealthily entered her said home, and went upstairs to the second story thereof, as the plaintiff then believed, to commit a felony; that the identity'of the defendant was not known to her at the time she heard him enter the…
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- Braun v. CravenIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
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