Case ID: ill-app_184/html/0033-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tillie Eckersberg, Appellee, v. Paul Dunklau, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 18,799.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Assault and battery, § 14
      
      —when evidence sufficient to sustain verdict for assault. In trespass to recover damages for an alleged assault, a verdict for plaintiff on conflicting evidence held sustained by the evidence.
    2. Appeal and error, § 1561
      
      —when refusal of requested instructions harmless. Refusal of requested instructions not error when so much of the instruction as was proper was covered by other instructions given.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Duane J. Carnes, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in the Branch Appellate Court
    at the October term, 1912.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed December 2, 1913.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Tillie Eckersberg against Paul Dunklau for damages for an assault made upon plaintiff by defendant. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for five hundred dollars, defendant appeals.
    Arnold Tripp, for appellant.
    Chester Firebaugh and Henry W. Huttmann, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Clark

delivered the opinion of the court.