Hendricks v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Clearly, the act of intentionally causing actual physical harm to another is civilly actionable as a battery,” although intent to harm is not an essential element
• “Any act of physical violence ... inflicted on the person of another, which is not necessary, is not privileged, and which constitutes a harmful or offensive contact, constitutes an assault and battery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).