Superior Court of Delaware, 1849

Palmer v. Skillenger

Palmer v. Skillenger
Superior Court of Delaware · Decided July 5, 1849
5 Del. 234

Counsel

Mr. Layton , Houston., Cullen and Houston, for plaintiff., Robinson and Layton, for defendant.

Palmer v. Skillenger

Opinion of the Court

The Court

said that the particular issue being on the plea of son assault demesne on the 8th of October, 1848, and replication of de injuria sua proprio, &c., the defendant should begin with his evidence, and if he proves an assault on him by the plaintiff, on any *235 day before the action brought, the plaintiff will not be allowed to answer it by proof of an assault on any other day, unless he re-assign.

Cullen and Houston, for plaintiff. Robinson and Layton, for defendant.

The defendant’s counsel objected to going on with their evidence first, bécause there was another plea and issue, viz: the act of limitations; and he objected also to the plaintiff being allowed to prove any other assault than on the 8th of October, 1848.

The Court

directed the plaintiff to proceed, and admitted proof on another day, to which defendant’s counsel excepted.

The plaintiff had a verdict.

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