Madden v. D. C. Transit System, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the plaintiff had not pled intent for alleged assault committed when plaintiff was \assaulted\ by fumes from a bus while standing in an intersection
• finding that the plaintiff had not pled intent for alleged assault committed when plaintiff was “assaulted” by fumes from a bus while standing in an intersection
• dismissing the plaintiffs battery action for failure to state a claim as a result of the plaintiffs failure to plead intent
• “An essential element of the ancient tort of assault is the intentional putting another in apprehension of an immediate and harmful or offensive conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).