Curl v. Chi., R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
Decision Date | 25 April 1884 |
Citation | 19 N.W. 308,63 Iowa 417 |
Court | Iowa Supreme Court |
Parties | CURL v. CHICAGO, R. I. & P. RY. CO. |
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Appeal from Washington. Opinion upon rehearing. See S. C. 16 N. W. REP. 69.M. A. Low, for appellant.
Wilson & Kellogg, for appellee.
A rehearing having been allowed in this case, it has been again argued. Upon a reconsideration of the whole case, and all arguments submitted therein, we remain satisfied with the conclusions announced in the foregoing opinion upon all questions discussed and decided therein. They are so fully and clearly presented that nothing more need be said in their support. However, one objection urged by counsel for defendant escaped our attention in our former consideration of the case. We are satisfied that it was well taken, and that thereon the judgment of the court below ought to be reversed. We will proceed to consider it. The petition alleges that the conductor “maliciously, unlawfully, brutally, forcibly, wrongfully, and violently” ejected plaintiff from the car. As applicable to the issue joined upon this allegation of the petition, the court gave an instruction in the following language: This instruction is erroneous in that it does not make the recovery of exemplary damages dependent upon malice of the wrong-doer. It holds that the willful use of unnecessary force is a ground for allowing exemplary damages. An act willfully done may not be accompanied by malice; that is, a spirit of enmity, malevolence, or ill-will, with a desire to harm, and a disposition to injure. One may willfully do an act with innocent purposes; that is, he may obstinately, stubbornly, and with design, act lawfully and with good intentions. The instruction fails to present the thought that the element of malice must accompany acts of the kind complained...
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