Hoover v. De Klotz

This is an action for damages for an assault and battery. The plaintiff prevailed, and the defendant appeals. .

The defendant pleaded self-defense, and that, while he ' was interposing a meat cleaver between himself and the plaintiff, the latter struck the instrument and wounded himself. The plaintiff’s testimony that the defendant made qn unprovoked assault upon him with a cleaver is corroborated by other evidence. The defendant’s test!*147mony that, as the plaintiff suddenly attacked him, he instinctively interposed the cleaver, and the plaintiff struck Ms arm thereon to his injury, is also…