Case Name: THOMPSON v. BERRY
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-12
Citations: 23 F. Cas. 1024
Docket Number: 
Parties: THOMPSON v. BERRY.
Judges: KILTY, Chief Judge, absent.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 23
Pages: 1024–1024

Head Matter:
Case No. 13,943.
THOMPSON v. BERRY.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 45.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1801.
Assault and Battery — Defendant’s Land-Pushing Off.
A man cannot lawfully push another off from . his land without first requesting him to go off.
Assault and battery. Plea, molliter manus imposuit.
Mr. Hewitt, for defendant,
prayed THE COURT to instruct the jury that if they should be. of opinion, from the evidence, that the defendant had legal possession of the 'place where, &c., he had a right to remove the plaintiff by pushing him off.

Opinion:
THE COURT
refused to give the instruction as prayed; being of opinion that a previous request to the plaintiff to go off was necessary.
KILTY, Chief Judge, absent.