Case Name: Barry vs. Ingles and others
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1799-04
Citations: 2 Hayw. 102
Docket Number: 
Parties: Barry vs. Ingles and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 102–102

Head Matter:
Barry vs. Ingles and others.
ACTION for assault and battery.

Opinion:
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.