Case Name: Mecklin v. Caldwell
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1807-06
Citations: 1 Cranch 400
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mecklin v. Caldwell.
Judges: Fitzhugh, 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: 400–400

Head Matter:
Mecklin v. Caldwell.
In assault and battery, the affidavit to hold to bail, must state some specific injury to the person of the plaintiff, apd must be positive as to some amount of damages.
Assault and battery. The affidavit stated a beating, without any special damage, except that the plaintiff could not, /or some days, transact all his business, as clerk.in one of the departments, as well as usual, and that the injury was such, that he thinks that ten pounds, sterling vvould not be too great a compensation therefor.

Opinion:
The Court
refused to hold defendant to bail on the affidavit, it not being positive as to any amount of damages, arid not stating any specific injury to the person of the plaintiff.-
Fitzhugh, J., absent.