Waters v. Phosphate Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the required mens rea for assault and battery is “an intention to do bodily harm”
• reciting trial court’s jury instructions, when the defendant was indicted for malicious wounding, but the court then convicted the defendant for assault and battery
• “an intention to injure ... may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional”
• “Intention . . . may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional.”
• “an intention to injure ... may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional”
• permitting battery conviction based on reckless driving

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).