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cases Note, the verdict was $2,800.00 which would be about $87,000.00 today.

1. Why do you think this was called "assault and battery" (you can jump ahead to Module 3 if needed)?
2. "The learned circuit judge said to the jury: 'It is a peculiar case, an unfortunate case, a case, I think I am at liberty to say, that ought not to have come into court. The parents of these children ought, in some way, if possible, to have adjusted it between themselves.'"Vosburg v. Putney78 Wis. 84; 47 N.W. 99 (Wisc. 1890) at 86. What do you make of this statement and how it affects the concepts of jurisprudence.
3. What do you think of the Supreme Court's reasoning in upholding the awarded judgment to the plaintiff?