Barker v. James

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• in suit for battery from scuffle between neighbors, pleadings sufficiently al leged malice as basis for punitive damages; error in refusing related jury instruction harmless
• “[I]n an action for assault and battery malice is an appropriate basis for punitive damages and that malice may be inferred or implied from the nature of the acts complained of and the surrounding circumstances.”

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