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· 4/10/1950

Terrell v. Commissioner

Citations

  • 14 T.C. 572

How courts have described this case

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  • “One in his own house need not stand and take without resisting with force even slight assaults of an intruder or trespasser.... But he must not use force disproportioned to that used against him[.]”

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Judges: Murdock

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