Opinion
Gen. No. 9,469. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed February 14, 1940.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY, § 22 — sufficiency of evidence. In action for assault and battery, judgment was properly entered on verdict for plaintiff, where plaintiff and her father testified that defendant, plaintiff's uncle, was the aggressor in a fight which started when plaintiff allegedly said that she did not have to take certain remarks from a "dead beat," defendant claiming that he struck plaintiff in self-defense but not sustaining the burden of proof as to such defense.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from Circuit Court of Henry county; Hon. LEONARD E. TELLEEN, presiding. Affirmed. Heard in this court at October term, 1939; opinion filed February 14, 1940.
James H. Andrews, Gregg A. Young and Harper Andrews, for appellant; Thomas J. Welch and Vera M. Binks, for appellee.
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