Zuern v. Chapman (In Re Chapman)

How courts have described this case

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

• “One person does not kick another person in the head without intending to harm him.”
• “[T]he deliberate pursuit of the plaintiff into the street to kick him repeatedly in the head as he lay in the street is not self-defense but a malicious act by any definition.”
• conduct of debtor in violently and repeatedly kicking victim in the head while victim was lying helplessly face down in the street was malicious and could not be construed as self defense, so that resulting debt was nondis-chargeable
• Debtor struck and kicked plaintiff while helpless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).