Case Name: REGINA BOHAN, BY NEXT FRIEND, AND FRANK THOMAS BOHAN, v. MICHAEL GULYA
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1929-09-12
Citations: 7 N.J. Misc. 777
Docket Number: 
Parties: REGINA BOHAN, BY NEXT FRIEND, AND FRANK THOMAS BOHAN, v. MICHAEL GULYA.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 777–777

Head Matter:
REGINA BOHAN, BY NEXT FRIEND, AND FRANK THOMAS BOHAN, v. MICHAEL GULYA.
Submitted May 17, 1929
Decided September 12, 1929.
Before Justices Paeker, Black, and Bobine.
For the plaintiffs, George R. Morrison.
For the defendant, Henry G. Berg.

Opinion:
Pek Cueiam.
This is an assault and battery case. The infant plaintiff, a young girl of eighteen, had a verdict of $2,500, which may properly be considered to have included punitive damages, and her father had a verdict of $100 for damages per quod.
As to the physical injury admittedly inflicted by defendant on llegina, the dispute of fact is principally whether he hit her in the head with a large stone, or whether it was merely a clod of dirt. The evidence seems fairly clear that her scalp was cut to the bone and that she had severe bruises on the leg. Making allowance for a certain amount of exaggeration of the alleged nervous injury, the ease shows an unreasonable and unnecessary assault by an irascible grown man on a young woman, and the jury quite properly took advantage of the instruction that they might include exemplary damages. As to the verdict of $100 for loss of services, the actual expense proved was only $10, but there are other elements in such a verdict besides actual expense sustained, which may be assessed by a jury though incapable of definite arithmetical calculation.
The rule will he discharged.