Hughes v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “if a defendant intends to create an apprehension of harm in the plaintiff, he or she has committed the intentional tort of assault”
• holding that the plaintiff committed the intentional tort of assault when, even though engaged in horseplay, the defendant “intended to frighten” the plaintiff
• holding that, where a governmental entity retained immunity, a plaintiff was entitled to compensation from the defendant for injuries caused by the defendant who was acting within the scope of his employment
• holding intent to create apprehension of harm in the plaintiff is sufficient to support tort of assault
• relying in part on interpretation of criminal assault statute to determine the intent necessary to sustain a civil claim for the tort of assault
• describing the inquiry as not being based upon a ―bright-line rule,‖ but instead as being determined by consideration of several ―fact-intensive‖ factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).