Case No. 9,388.

MECKLIN v. CALDWELL.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 400.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

June Term, 1807.

BAIL IN CIVIL CASES—SUFFICIENCY OF AFFIDAVIT—SPECIFIC INJURY—DAMAGES.

In assault and battery, the affidavit to hold to bail, must state some specific injury to the person of the plaintiff, and must be positive as to some amount of damages.

Assault and battery. The affidavit stated a beating, without any special damage, except that the plaintiff could not, for some days, transact all his business, as clerk in one of the departments, as well as usual, and that the injury was such, that he thinks that ten pounds sterling would not be too great a compensation therefor.

THE COURT refused to hold defendant to bail on the affidavit, it not being positive as to any amount of damages, and not stating any specific injury to the person of the plaintiff.

FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent.

[See Case No. 9,387.]

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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