Lambert v. Brewster

MEREDITH, PRESIDENT:

Plaintiff seeks to reverse the judgment of the circuit court of McDowell County setting aside a verdict of $500 in plaintiff’s favor. Her action is in trespass on the case, and in her declaration she alleges that while she was in a state of pregnancy, on September 3, 1922, the defendant, in her sight, and knowing her condition, committed an unjustifiable and forcible assault on her, the plaintiffs’ father. She alleges that her father was an elderly man weighing 155 pounds, and that defendant was a young man weighing 175 pounds, and that by reáson of the unjustified…