Armsworthy v. Missouri River, Ft. S. & G. R.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• refusing to permit “clever pleading” to transform the nature of a tort claim and recognizing that “[n]early any assault and battery can be pled as a claim for negligence”
• “The acts of subduing and handcuffing are undoubtedly offensive to a reasonable sense of personal dignity.”
• officer who subdued and handcuffed the plaintiff committed intentional acts which, unless privileged, constituted a battery
• officer who subdued and handcuffed the plaintiff committed intentional acts which, unless privileged, constituted a battery
• “A person is subject to liability for battery when he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact, and when a harmful contact results.”
• \[a] person is subject to liability for battery when he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).