Case ID: dc_2/html/0016-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "the CouRT", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Newman v. Davis.
    Trespass vi et armis, will lie for assaulting and shooting the plaintiff’s slave, without a per quod servitium amisit.
    
    Trespass, vi et armis, for assaulting and shooting the plaintiff’s slave.
    
      Motion in arrest of judgment, that trespass vi et armis does not lie. It ought to be a special action upon the case; the damages being consequential only.
   But

the CouRT

(Thruston, J., doubting,)

overruled the motion.