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201 Ill. App. 50

Halford v. Dodot

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 13, 1915

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1915-10-13

<p>Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Cbeiqhton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1914.</p>

Affirmed · Decided 1915-10-13

Mr. Justice Thompson,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Intoxicating liquors, § 256*—when instruction in action for damages for assault by intoxicated person properly modified. In an action for an assault on a deputy sheriff by an intoxicated' person, which was claimed by the defendants to have been made in self-defense, an instruction which told the jury that if they believed from the evidence that plaintiff unlawfully pulled a revolver on A, the person committing the alleged assault, so as to cause said A to fear he was about to receive bodily harm, etc., held properly modified by substitution for the word “unlawfully” the words “while not in the reasonable discharge of his duties as a deputy sheriff,” where A knew the plaintiff was a deputy sheriff.
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