High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403 (Wisc. 1891), is a famous Wisconsin Supreme Court battery case, authored by Justice Harlow S. Orton, exemplifying the eggshell skull rule of United States tort law. The case is often taught to first-year law students in the United States as an introduction to intentional torts.