Halford v. Dodot

Appellate Court of Illinois

Halford v. Dodot

201 Ill. App. 50

DecidedOctober 13, 1915

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Halford v. Dodot, 201 Ill. App. 50 (Ill. Ct. App. 1915).

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Mr. Justice Thompson,

delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Intoxicating liquors, § 256*—when instruction in action for damages for assault by intoxicated person properly modified. In an action for an assault on a deputy sheriff by an intoxicated' person, which was claimed by the defendants to have been made in self-defense, an instruction which told the jury that if they believed from the evidence that plaintiff unlawfully pulled a revolver on A, the person committing the alleged assault, so as to cause said A to fear he was about to receive bodily harm, etc., held properly modified by substitution for the word “unlawfully” the words “while not in the reasonable discharge of his duties as a deputy sheriff,” where A knew the plaintiff was a deputy sheriff.

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Mr. Justice Thompson,

delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Intoxicating liquors, § 256*—when instruction in action for damages for assault by intoxicated person properly modified. In an action for an assault on a deputy sheriff by an intoxicated' person, which was claimed by the defendants to have been made in self-defense, an instruction which told the jury that if they believed from the evidence that plaintiff unlawfully pulled a revolver on A, the person committing the alleged assault, so as to cause said A to fear he was about to receive bodily harm, etc., held properly modified by substitution for the word “unlawfully” the words “while not in the reasonable discharge of his duties as a deputy sheriff,” where A knew the plaintiff was a deputy sheriff.

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