The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1914-08-22
A Judgment for sfoo. 600. 90!

i VAOS1NNSeO0s
| This is the amount of damages Jules
Mazerat, well-known cotton man of New
Orleans, and summer resident of Wave
land, wants to collect from John
Met Closkey, president of the New Or
Icons Brewing Association, and identi-
fed with other business interests at New
Orleans, and also summer resident of
Waveland, who is charged, according to
public record, with unprovoked assault
and battery.
It appears, from common report, that
recently Mr.. Mazerat, who is leader of
the seawall project for Waveland, and,
by the way, an earnest and enthusiastic
worker in the cause, had occasion to
engage Mr.. McCloskey in conversa-
tion on the subject and during that time
it is charged Mr.. Mazerat was beaten.
He claims it was without justifable
provocation, and, through his attorney,
and the courts, wants redress.
According to the bill of particulars
filed with the Circuit Clerk of Hancock
county, the defendant through his at
torney, Hon. r. L. Genin, of Bay ST.
Louis, AYERS that the grounds of the
plaintiffs action is this, to-wit:
"That, heretofore, on or about the
1st day of August, A. D. 1914, in the
town Of Waveland, county of Hancock,
State of Mississippi, the plaintiff was
walking along the public highway of
said town quietly and peacefully. and
upon arriving in front of the property
owned and occupied by the defendant,
the plaintiff then and there on the
public highway met the defendant and
the defendants wife, and then
and there joined the defendant and
defendants wife in perfectly friend
ly conversation, and while in the
course of said friendly conyersa tion,
and without reason, words, warning or
provocation the defendant want only,
wilfully and maliciously did make an
assault upon the person Of the plaintiff
and then and there struck the plaintiff
| in the face or neck with his (the de-
fendant's )fist or hand in violent man.
mer, knocking the plaintiff PROSTATE on
the ground.
"That immediately after the defendant
struck the plaintiff in the unlawful i,
| brutal, unreasonable and unprovoked
manner as aforesaid" continues the bill
| of particulars, "the defendant again with
out reason cause or provocation and
with willful, malicious, brutal and un-
lawful intent again struck the plaintiff
in the face or neck with his (the defen-
dant's) fist or hand.
| "That as a result of said willful, mali
cious, unjustifiable and unprovoked as
sault and battery by the defendant up
on the plaintiff at the time, place and in
the manner aforesaid, the plaintiff has
suffered and undergone great physical
pain, mental suffering, loss and neglect
of business, humiliation, insult, indig-
mites and other wrongs against the
plaintiff then and there did and against
the peace and dignity of the State OF
Mississippi, to the damage of the plain
tiff in the sum of One Hundred Thous :
and Dollars.
/ Second count - *"That the defen-
dant struck the plaintiff twice at the
time, place and manner aforesaid and
/ that the second blow was struck imme-
diately after the first, and as result OF
one blow or punch the plaintiff was
knocked PROSTATE on the ground"
The defendant has secured the SER
vices of Mcdonald 8; Marshall, of Bay
ST. Louis, attorneys.