Case ID: nc_3/html/0102-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Etper Moore, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Barry vs. Ingles and others.
    
    ACTION for assault and battery.
   Etper Moore, Judge.

Any immediate provocation giveir to the defendants may be shewn in evidence to mitigate damages ; but any remote provocation shall not, for then we should have to go into quarrels and disputes that existed perhaps for years before the fighting : such should not be considered as sti-inulating the defendants to fall upon the plaintiff at so late a period, after there was time for the passions to cool and for the parties to reflect.