Case Name: Thompson v. Berry
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 45
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thompson v. Berry.
Judges: Kilty, C. J., absent.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 45–45

Head Matter:
Thompson v. Berry.
A man cannot lawfully push another off from his land without first requesting him to go off.
Assault and battery. Plea, molliter manns imposuit.
Mr. Heioitt, for the 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, &e., 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, C. J., absent.