12 Ga. 461 | Ga. | 1853
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
■ [1.] The instructions of the Court to the Jury, presented the law of this case most favorably to the plaintiff in error. The defendant in error might complain with more propriety than he. As to the assumption in the rule for a new trial, that the verdict was against the evidence, we say, that it is utterly groundless ; nor do we think that the damages were excessive. A man who violently drags a woman out of doors, deserves to pay well for it. It is no excuse that he was the owner of the house, for it was in the occupancy of Mrs. Hall. She was the temporary proprietor. Mrs. Anderson hada right to be there, with her consent.