VENT v. JOHNSON

No. 08-388.

303 S.W.3d 46 (2009)

2009 Ark. 92

Lee VENT, Appellant, v. Lewis JOHNSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Paul Blume, Little Rock, for appellant.

Wilson Law Firm, P.A., by: E. Dion Wilson, Helena, for appellees.


ELANA CUNNINGHAM WILLS, Justice.

This case arises out of an alleged act of battery committed on a student by a teacher in the Forrest City School District. According to the complaint, Davanis Johnson, who was twelve years old at the time, asked his teacher for a pencil. The teacher, Arnold Ryan, grabbed Johnson and began to punch him. Another student, James Towner, tried to intervene, and Ryan shoved him into a desk. On May 2, 2005, Johnson and Towner, through their...

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